Re: massive quotes? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: massive quotes?
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In response to Re: massive quotes?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: massive quotes?  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>


> Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:
> > Tom Lane kirjutas P, 14.09.2003 kell 18:58:
> >> Those seem pretty unmemorable and content-free, though.  Any other
ideas
> >> out there?
>
> > Considering that we use $$ instead of quotes we could call it dollarring
> > instead of quoting ;)
> > ...
> > double-dollar quoting feels good to say aloud ...
>
> Hm, "dollar quoting" doesn't sound too bad.  I could go with that,
> unless someone has a better idea?
>

I would prefer a name that says what it does rather than what it looks like.
But I can't think of a good one :-) 'Unescaped quoting' is more or less what
it does, but while not content-free :-) is less than memorable. *shrug* I
don't care that much that I want to spend lots of time thinking about it.

cheers

andrew



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