David LeBlanc whisper at oz.net
Mon May 13 06:32:07 EDT 2002

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While it may not be part of any published standard, the several SQL's that
i've worked with (oracle, sybase/ms and something else whose name eludes me
at the moment) include the "RLIKE" clause to denote re matches.

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

<snip>
> grep and SQL have little in common.  You can use regular expressions
> in PostgreSQL, but that's a definitely *non-standard* extension to SQL!
> Besides, I doubt performance would be dramatically enhances as long as
> your searches are RE-based anyway, as they'd have to scan everything in
> any case, no matter where you store the "everything".
>
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> Alex
>
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