Re: regexp_replace

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Don't we have this functionality already?  It's even SQL-spec ...

> Uh, all I see it replace(), which isn't regex:

The SQL-spec function is substring(string from pattern for escape-char);
see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-SIMILARTO-REGEXP

and we also have a variant of that for POSIX rather than SQL-style
regexps:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-POSIX-REGEXP

            regards, tom lane