Re: [GENERAL] column names and dollar sign - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 5/17/2017 4:51 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
> Variables ending in '$' date back to at least the early days of BASIC
> - long before the spectre of Microsoft loomed large, let alone 'Visual
> Basic'!


I note even INT fields have $ names there...   IBM used to like to use $
in names for system stuff, SYS$BLAHBLAH or whatever.


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