2009/12/25 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> there are two quoting styles, so we need two syntax. I proposed
>
>> :[var] and :{var} - for ident quoting and literal quoting.
>> Theoretically we could to use :(var) for bytea escaping.
>
> And if you need a fourth style, you're at a dead end. I don't think
> this is really an improvement over the single-flag-character approach.
> Neither one has got any mnemonic value whatever, unfortunately, but
> at least the flag character method is fairly extensible.
I thing so not.
what:
:'variable'
:"variable"
we could to use any non identifier char without ":"
for me - flag characters looks little bit strange - maybe I have a
quoting joined with some symmetric. Maybe it looks too much like unary
operator
Regards
Pavel
>
> regards, tom lane
>
