Feature Request: Allow additional special characters at the beginning of the name. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mark Simon
Subject Feature Request: Allow additional special characters at the beginning of the name.
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Msg-id d3ec818b-8f5d-2823-5641-56cfce62503f@manngo.net
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Responses Re: Feature Request: Allow additional special characters at the beginning of the name.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I am very new to this list, so I don’t know whether this is the right place.

Microsoft SQL and MySQL both use the @ sign at the beginning of their variables. The most obvious benefit of this is that it is very easy to distinguish between variable names and column names.

I’m not asking for a change in how PostgreSQL manages variables, but whether it’s possible to allow the @ sign, and possibly the $ sign to start a variable name. I am aware that the _ can start a variable name, but the other characters are a little more eye-catching.

Does that make sense?


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