Re: Dollar in identifiers

Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-01-09T22:49:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> > The problem is, discouraged or not, if there's a slot people will stick
> > something into ... meaning if it accepts a dollar, to hell with vendor
> > recommendations!
> 
> I'm confused; are you voting against allowing dollar in identifiers?
> I thought it was you that proposed allowing it in the first place ...

You are, I don't and I was, indeed.

Remove Dollar from the operators and allow it as non-first identifier
char. Please :-)


Jan


> 
>                         regards, tom lane


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