Hi,
I just tried to input a hexadecimal number in PostgreSQL
(8.4) and was rather surprised by the result:
| tim=# SELECT 0x13;
| x13
| -----
| 0
| (1 Zeile)
| tim=# SELECT 0abc;
| abc
| -----
| 0
| (1 Zeile)
| tim=#
The documentation says:
| A token can be a key word, an identifier, a quoted identifi-
| er, a literal (or constant), or a special character symbol.
| Tokens are normally separated by whitespace (space, tab,
| newline), but need not be if there is no ambiguity (which is
| generally only the case if a special character is adjacent
| to some other token type).
Is this behaviour really conforming to the standard? Even
stranger is what MySQL (5.1.59) makes out of it:
| mysql> SELECT 0x40;
| +------+
| | 0x40 |
| +------+
| | @ |
| +------+
| 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
| mysql> SELECT 0abc;
| ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column '0abc' in 'field list'
| mysql>
Tim
