Re: AREs in substring(from)

Brandon Craig Rhodes <brandon@oit.gatech.edu> writes:
> As the documentation leads me to expect, my Postgresql 7.4
> installation produces:
>    select substring('Bar, Foo' FROM '.')  ->  'B'
> but even though my regex_flavor = advanced,
>    select substring('Bar, Foo' FROM '\\w')  ->  NULL
>    select substring('Bar, Foo' FROM '***:\\w')  ->  NULL
> whereas I expect these to produce 'B' as well.  What am I missing?

[ scratches head... ]  It works for me.

regression=# select substring('Bar, Foo' FROM '\\w');
 substring
-----------
 B
(1 row)

regression=# select substring('Bar, Foo' FROM '***:\\w');
 substring
-----------
 B
(1 row)

What locale and encoding are you using?

            regards, tom lane