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Re: Dollar in identifiers

Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

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From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-08-16T19:12:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Tom Lane wrote:
> In any case, this is sufficient reason why we cannot allow $ to be
> allowed in identifiers: it will break any extant applications that use $
> in user-defined operators.

    Than  again we're no better than the other DB's. The standard
    excludes $  from  any  character  class.  Oracle  and  others
    violate the standard by allowing them in identifiers while we
    alone violate it by allowing them  in  operators.   Well,  at
    least we're different!

    I would've expected you, Tom, to suggest removing it from the
    operators as well :-)


Jan

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