Re: Is this a bug ?

From: "Peter J(dot) Holzer" <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is this a bug ?
Date: 2019-10-23 19:03:34
Message-ID: 20191023190334.GB26674@hjp.at
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On 2019-10-23 17:20:07 +0100, Geoff Winkless wrote:
> For what it's worth, I can see a value to having
>
> SELECT 'this is quite a long string'
> 'which I've joined together '
> 'across multiple lines';
>
> although the advantage of it vs using a concat operator is slim.

True. However, concatenation of string literals by juxtaposition isn't
specific to SQL. Two other well known languages where this works (even
without a newline) are C and Python.

hp

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