Re: Dollar in identifiers

> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > We do currently use $1 for params, so allowing dollar in the middle
> > seems better. However, I need to see multiple people who need it before
> > I would say OK. If we go adding things because _one_ person wants it,
> > we will end up with a mess. Someone is working on an
> > Oracle-compatibility parser. It would be OK in there.
>
> Exactly that was my first response in the meeting yesterday.
> Put it into the Oracle-compatibility parser when we have it.
> The question is "will we for sure have that parser and
> when?".
>
> But let's see. Is there anybody else out there who would like
> this feature? Ian?

Yes, if you can get other votes for the feature, it has a good chance.
Seems pretty small. In fact, you could probably enable it with a
#define that could be safer.

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