Re: PL/pgSQL does not accept none ASCII identifiers

Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> It seems PL/pgSQL accepts only ASCII identifiers. This results in
> column names of Europian or Asian languages are syntax errors for
> example. Fix for this looks simple (see attached patches) but I would
> like to know if there's any intentional reasons for this.

No other reason than that I just forgot about non-ascii
identifiers when I coded that (long long ago). Go ahead and
change it.

Jan

> --
> Tatsuo Ishii
>
> *** scan.l~ Thu May 27 05:55:06 1999
> --- scan.l Thu Sep 7 19:25:36 2000
> ***************
> *** 48,55 ****
> #define YY_INPUT(buf,res,max) plpgsql_input(buf, &res, max)
> %}
>
> ! WS [[:alpha:]_"]
> ! WC [[:alnum:]_"]
>
> %x IN_STRING IN_COMMENT
>
> --- 48,55 ----
> #define YY_INPUT(buf,res,max) plpgsql_input(buf, &res, max)
> %}
>
> ! WS [\200-\377_A-Za-z"]
> ! WC [\200-\377_A-Za-z0-9"]
>
> %x IN_STRING IN_COMMENT

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