Re: Views->Create Script + Regular Expressions - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Michael Shapiro
Subject Re: Views->Create Script + Regular Expressions
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Msg-id CAGCvxeb+2okCwszd5RDnabeBiVr4FooN_vsoKrTqs3caekubUg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Views->Create Script + Regular Expressions  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
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I ran into this warning when we switched from one version of Postgres to another.
It complains when the view is created, but it works fine when I select from it.

But I don't mix E' and \\

My views have strings like  '\\.[0-9]+\\.'

Your view has both E' and \\ -- could it be that if you have E' you only need \, not \\



On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 08:04 -0700, Richard Broersma wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
> > It would be great if you could provide us a complete example.
>
> Here is a sample view.
>
> --*************
> CREATE VIEW TestView AS select cmpnt_name, regexp_matches(cmpnt_name,
> E'(^\\d{1,2})-([A-Z]+) *- ?(\\d{3,4})-?([A-Z]*)?')  from component;
> --*************
>
> Here what Views->Create Script returns:
>
>
>
> --*************
> -- View: testview
>
> -- DROP VIEW testview;
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW testview AS
>  SELECT component.cmpnt_name,
> regexp_matches(component.cmpnt_name::text, '(^\\d{1,2})-([A-Z]+) *-
> ?(\\d{3,4})-?([A-Z]*)?'::text) AS regexp_matches
>    FROM component;
>
> ALTER TABLE testview OWNER TO rbroersma;
> --*************
>
>
>
> Notice what happens if I try to execute this script.
>
> WARNING:  nonstandard use of \\ in a string literal
> LINE 6: ..._name, regexp_matches(component.cmpnt_name::text, '(^\\d{1,2...
>                                                              ^
> HINT:  Use the escape string syntax for backslashes, e.g., E'\\'.
> Query returned successfully with no result in 157 ms.
>
>

There's not much we can do about this. The SELECT part is retrieved via
a call to pg_getviewdef. So, if you want to call this a bug, this is a
PostgreSQL bug (and I don't think this is).


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