Re: [Geotools-devel] Having fun implemeting sql function encoding for postgis

[Justin D. <jde...@op...>]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Andrea Aime
<and...@ge...>wrote:

> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Justin Deoliveira <jde...@op...>
> wrote:
> >> Databases often support POSIX regular expression syntax, but a pure
> >> java version that is stricly posix does not exist afaik.
> >> For this case we could have a custom store parameter asking the
> >> code to blindly encode the regexp as is: the admin that enables
> >> it takes responsibility.
> >
> > Does perhaps a regex for the regex make sense? :) Like we do for virtual
> > table parameters. Just a thought.
>
> Uuuhh, meta-regexp... my brain just turned into pudding... ok, back to
> normal...
> Sounds like an interesting idea, however we should expand the filter
> splitter to check not just the class of the function, but its specific
> instance
> and parameters... quite a bit of work
>

Haha, yeah it took me a minute to wrap my own head around it :) Anyways,
just a random thought. I think not enabling it by default and warning the
admin is perfectly acceptable as well.

>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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