Re: Regexps -- too complex?

> SELECT id, title,publishdate,categoryid FROM articles WHERE
> upper(title) ~ '(BLACK|SERIOUS|SAM)[[:>:]]'::text ;
> 
> I think the proiblem is in trnsalte, not in regexp
> 
> If you have installed apprporiate character encoding in Postgres,
> 'upper' will work!
> 
>  Vladimir

Thanks for the advice, unfortunately, it does not seem to work that 
way.


CREATE TABLE "test" (       "title" text
);
COPY "test" FROM stdin;
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SELECT title FROM test WHERE title ~ '(BLACK|WHITE|SAM)';

yields 8 rows.

SELECT title FROM test WHERE title ~ 
'(BLACK|WHITE|blahblah|SAM)'; 

yields 0 rows!

SELECT title FROM test WHERE title ~ '(BLACK|WHITE|SAM) *'; 
also yields 0 rows!


I dont think this is right no matter what the characters I am using 
there. At least it shouldn't, should it?

Emils