Re: Dollar in identifiers

> I'm not sure if it's according to or violating the standard.
> But most other databases allow a '$' inside of identifiers.
> Well, most of them recommend not to use it, but hey guy's,
> what's a recommendation for a programmer?
>
> In order to lower porting issues, I think it'd be nice to add
> that to PostgreSQL as well. It's two more characters in
> scan.l and doesn't break the regression test.
>
> Objections?

Yes. We would move from standard C identifiers to $ identifiers. We
have had zero requests for this so I see no need to add it.

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