"Armand Pirvu (home)" <armand(dot)pirvu(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Ran into the following statement
> CREATE TABLE test(
> Date$ date,
> Month_Number$ int,
> Month$ varchar(10),
> Year$ int
> );
> While it does execute, I wonder if the $ has any special meaning ?
Postgres thinks it's a valid identifier character, as long as it's
not the first character. I don't believe it's standard SQL, but
we hacked it in a long time ago for compatibility with Oracle or
somebody like that.
regards, tom lane