| From: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Dollar in identifiers |
| Date: | 2001-08-16 19:12:58 |
| Message-ID: | 200108161912.f7GJCwf02852@jupiter.us.greatbridge.com |
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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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