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Re: add function argument names to regex* functions.

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-01-03T12:13:03Z
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On 28.12.23 04:28, jian he wrote:
> I looked around the oracle implementation in [1], and the oracle regex
> related function argumentation name in [2]
> I use the doc [3] syntax explanation and add the related function names.
> 
> Current, regex.* function syntax seems fine. but only parameter `N`
> seems a little bit weird.
> If we change the function's argument name, we also need to change
> function syntax explanation in the doc; vise versa.

So, it looks like Oracle already has defined parameter names for these, 
so we should make ours match.

Commits

  1. Doc: fix text's description of regexp_replace's arguments.

  2. Add argument names to the regexp_XXX functions.

  3. Add assorted new regexp_xxx SQL functions.