Re: [PATCHES] dollar quoting - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> andrew=# create table ab$cd$ef (ef$cd$ab text);
> CREATE TABLE
> andrew=# \d ab$cd$ef
> Did not find any relation named "ab$cd$ef".

Hmph.  I always thought that "$" was only special at the end of a regex,
but that doesn't seem to be how our implementation treats it.  Anyway
this is not a bug, it is a feature: the argument of \d is a regex.
        regards, tom lane