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Tom Lane authored
regexp_match() is like regexp_matches(), but it disallows the 'g' flag and in consequence does not need to return a set. Instead, it returns a simple text array value, or NULL if there's no match. Previously people usually got that behavior with a sub-select, but this way is considerably more efficient. Documentation adjusted so that regexp_match() is presented first and then regexp_matches() is introduced as a more complicated version. This is a bit historically revisionist but seems pedagogically better. Still TODO: extend contrib/citext to support this function. Emre Hasegeli, reviewed by David Johnston Discussion: <CAE2gYzy42sna2ME_e3y1KLQ-4UBrB-eVF0SWn8QG39sQSeVhEw@mail.gmail.com>
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