14.4. Summary
Regular expressions are an old and hence reliable feature of PHP and PostgreSQL. The power of regular expressions helps you to retrieve complex strings with just a few lines of code.
One problem when working with regular expressions is that no indexes can be used. Especially when dealing with large amounts of data, this can be a problem.
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