Re: massive quotes?

Tom Lane wrote:

>Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
>
>>Uh, the problem with long keywords is that you are then requiring the
>>_parser_ to identify those keywords, and at that point, the entire text
>>between the keywords has been sliced up by the lexer, which will
>>certainly make it a mess. I might be wrong that we can even use more
>>then two characters for the start of quote string
>>
>>
>
>You're wrong. We can use anything we like for the start of the quote
>string; flex is quite capable of recognizing fixed strings, and even
>variable ones. I'd prefer to avoid expecting it to handle
>up/downcasing, I think, but there is no technical reason that the
>delimiter couldn't look like a keyword.
>
>My objection to the proposal FUNCTIONBODY is that it makes it look like
>the feature is only useful in CREATE FUNCTION. In point of fact, the
>quoting facility could be used to construct any SQL string literal. The
>comparison points I am thinking about are shell here-documents and
>Perl quoting conventions, both of which are used for many things.
>
>
Anyway,
a viable solution seems to be very near, the general direction is quite
clear.
Problem with pure literal quote strings is that they couldn't be
immediately adjacent to literal strings, so they should start end end
with special chars:

$QUOTE1$This is my string$ENDQUOTE1$

Regards,
Andreas