Re: Dollar in identifiers

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-08-15T20:08:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Jan Wieck writes:

>     Could  you  live  with it when we don't allow a name to start
>     with a dollar, but allow the dollar inside or at the  end  of
>     the name?

At the end would also be a problem because of parsing conflicts with
operators.  (E.g., foo$<$bar)  I don't really like this idea; we don't
have to follow all the nonsense of other people.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter