Re: Dollar in identifiers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Dollar in identifiers
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0108152205550.677-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: Dollar in identifiers  (Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>)
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Jan Wieck writes:

>     Could  you  live  with it when we don't allow a name to start
>     with a dollar, but allow the dollar inside or at the  end  of
>     the name?

At the end would also be a problem because of parsing conflicts with
operators.  (E.g., foo$<$bar)  I don't really like this idea; we don't
have to follow all the nonsense of other people.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter



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