omni_regex

omnigres : PCRE-compatible regular expressions

Overview

ID	Extension	Package	Version	Category	License	Language
2961	omni_regex	omnigres	`0.1.0`	FEAT	Apache-2.0	C

Attribute	Has Binary	Has Library	Need Load	Has DDL	Relocatable	Trusted
--s-d-r	No	Yes	No	Yes	yes	no

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Siblings	omni omni_auth omni_aws omni_cloudevents omni_containers omni_credentials omni_email omni_http omni_httpc omni_httpd omni_id omni_json omni_kube omni_ledger omni_manifest omni_mimetypes omni_os omni_polyfill omni_python omni_rest omni_schema omni_seq omni_service omni_session omni_sql omni_sqlite omni_test omni_txn omni_types omni_var omni_vfs omni_vfs_types_v1 omni_web omni_worker omni_xml omni_yaml

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Packages

Type	Repo	Version	PG Major Compatibility	Package Pattern	Dependencies
EXT	PIGSTY	`0.1.0`	18 17 16 15 14	`omnigres`	-
RPM	PIGSTY	`0.1.0`	18 17 16 15 14	`omnigres_$v`	-
DEB	PIGSTY	`0.1.0`	18 17 16 15 14	`postgresql-$v-omnigres`	-

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u24.aarch64	PIGSTY 20251108	PIGSTY 20251108	PIGSTY 20251108	PIGSTY 20251108	PIGSTY 20251108

Source

Repository

docs.omnigres.org/omni_regex/regex/

Source Tarball

omnigres-20251108.tar.gz

pig build pkg omnigres;		# build rpm/deb

Install

Make sure PGDG and PIGSTY repo available:

pig repo add pgsql -u   # add both repo and update cache

Install this extension with pig:

pig install omnigres;		# install via package name, for the active PG version
pig install omni_regex;		# install by extension name, for the current active PG version

pig install omni_regex -v 18;   # install for PG 18
pig install omni_regex -v 17;   # install for PG 17
pig install omni_regex -v 16;   # install for PG 16
pig install omni_regex -v 15;   # install for PG 15
pig install omni_regex -v 14;   # install for PG 14

Create this extension with:

CREATE EXTENSION omni_regex;

Usage

omni_regex: PCRE-compatible regular expressions

The omni_regex extension provides PCRE2-based regular expression support with named capture groups.

Operators

Operator	Description
`~`	Matches string against regex
`!~`	Non-matching operator
`=~`	Alternative matching (same as `~`)

SELECT 'foo' ~ regex 'fo+';   -- true
SELECT 'bar' !~ regex 'foo';  -- true

Functions

regex_match(text, regex) – Returns captured groups from the first match:

SELECT regex_match('ABC123', '([A-Z]*)(\d+)');  -- {ABC,123}

regex_matches(text, regex) – Returns all matches as a set of text arrays:

SELECT regex_matches('foo1bar', '(fo+|bar)(\d?)');
-- {foo,1}
-- {bar,""}

regex_named_groups(regex) – Extracts named capture groups:

SELECT index FROM regex_named_groups('(fo+|bar)(?<num>\d?)')
WHERE name = 'num';  -- 2

Named capture group syntax: (?<name>REGEX)

Last updated on 2026-03-12

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