Re: Dollar in identifiers

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-01-09T21:55:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
> 
> > Quite awhile back, we had a discussion about removing "$" from the set
> > of allowed characters in operator names, and instead allowing it as a
> > non-first character in identifiers.
> 
> I agree with the first one, but does it have to imply the second?

I believe he wanted the second because Oracle supports it, and some
Oracle apps use that feature.  I think in the old days, before
underscore, Oracle used $ for space (double yuck).

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