Thomas Hallgren <thhal(at)mailblocks(dot)com> writes:
> Why not use standard C semantics for the textual representation with
> your addition that empty items are NULL?
This isn't C, it's SQL; and I think the array I/O representation is a
closer precedent for us than the C standard.
In any case, how much of C syntax are you proposing to emulate exactly?
Comments? Backslashed newlines? Joining of adjacent double-quoted
strings? Conversion of octal and hex integer constants (and what about
L, U, LL, etc suffixes)? There's a lot more stuff there than meets the
eye, and most of it isn't something I want to code.
regards, tom lane