Re: info about patch: using parametrised query in psql

2009/12/25 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> there are two quoting styles, so we need two syntax. I proposed
>
>> :[var] and :{var} - for ident quoting and literal quoting.
>> Theoretically we could to use :(var) for bytea escaping.
>
> And if you need a fourth style, you're at a dead end.  I don't think
> this is really an improvement over the single-flag-character approach.
> Neither one has got any mnemonic value whatever, unfortunately, but
> at least the flag character method is fairly extensible.

I thing so not.

what:

:'variable'
:"variable"

we could to use any non identifier char without ":"

for me - flag characters looks little bit strange - maybe I have a
quoting joined with some symmetric. Maybe it looks too much like unary
operator

Regards
Pavel

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>                        regards, tom lane
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