Re: clarify Regular Expression Match Operators

On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 02:59:06PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/functions-matching.html
> Description:
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> Table 9.14 Regular Expression Match Operators
> It is not clear (to me)where I would put one of these operators. The Example
> column does not make sense to me.

Uh, you can use those regular expressions any place you would use an
operator:

    SELECT 'thomas' ~ '.*thomas.*';
     ?column?
    ----------
     t

or in a where clause, e.g. WHERE col ~ 'ab.*c'.  Not sure how we can
improve the docs here.

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