Re: Dollar in identifiers

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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

Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2001-08-17T15:49:18Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane writes:

> Option 2 improves Oracle compatibility, at the price of breaking
> backwards compatibility for applications that presently use $ as part
> of multi-character operator names.  (But does anyone know of any?)

Hmm, postgresql-7.2devel_petere_privatebranch... :-(

Well, the Euro is already allowed in identifiers, so I rest.

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