Re: massive quotes?

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Sean Chittenden wrote:
>> >> The $$FOO proposal I put forward earlier was consciously modeled on
>> >> here-documents.
>>
>> > Couldn't we allow << at the beginning of the line to mean 'here' document?
>>
>> No; you could easily be breaking existing queries, for example
>
> Let me jump in for half a second here (no pun intended), but what
> about the use of back quotes? ` `? Use a very limited escaping policy
> of \` => ` and \\ => \ . Back quotes aren't used in any SQL or
> PL/PgSQL that I'm aware of. I know ruby, perl, and sh make use of
> back ticks, but for all intents and purposes, pl/perl shouldn't use
> back ticks, and if it is, for performance reasons a DBA shouldn't.
> Use of open() or system() should be encouraged as it is possible to
> avoid fork()/exec()'ing a shell, nevermind that ``'s aren't the wisest
> inclusions for DBAs. If ``'s are needed in the pl language, they can
> be nominally included with a \`\`, but given their relative rareness
> compared to ' or ", I'd think the addition of ` would be welcome and
> much less cumbersome/easier to remember than other options that have
> popped up in this thread.
>
> $0.02
>
> -sc
>

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