Re: Dollar in identifiers

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dollar in identifiers
Date: 2003-01-09 22:49:55
Message-ID: 3E1DFC93.B7EF1FDD@Yahoo.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > The problem is, discouraged or not, if there's a slot people will stick
> > something into ... meaning if it accepts a dollar, to hell with vendor
> > recommendations!
>
> I'm confused; are you voting against allowing dollar in identifiers?
> I thought it was you that proposed allowing it in the first place ...

You are, I don't and I was, indeed.

Remove Dollar from the operators and allow it as non-first identifier
char. Please :-)

Jan

>
> regards, tom lane

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