| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Dollar in identifiers |
| Date: | 2003-01-09 21:48:27 |
| Message-ID: | 15611.1042148907@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> Quite awhile back, we had a discussion about removing "$" from the set
>> of allowed characters in operator names, and instead allowing it as a
>> non-first character in identifiers.
> I agree with the first one, but does it have to imply the second?
It does not have to, but then we'd only be using "$" for parameters,
which seems like we're not getting our money's worth out of the
character (pun intended). Also, the original point of that discussion
was that Oracle allows "$" in identifiers, and people wanted to port
Oracle code without having to rename their stuff.
regards, tom lane
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