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Re: Dollar in identifiers

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-08-16T19:12:53Z
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Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com> writes:
>     I would've expected you, Tom, to suggest removing it from the
>     operators as well :-)

Well, adding a non-standard extension is one thing.  Doing it by
removing a different non-standard extension brings up backwards
compatibility issues.  In this case, I'm not thrilled about the
potential for breaking applications that have relied on our
long-standing, *documented* behavior.

http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-OPERATORS

			regards, tom lane