Re: massive quotes?

Richard Hall wrote:

>But if THIS solution is implemented then
>QUOTE('MyEndMarker')
> and
>MyEndMarker
> become noise words and it seems the parser could just assume to handle everything between
>CREATE FUNCTION ... AS
> and
>LANGUAGE
> as the delimiters for a function definition.
>
>But as that's so simple I must be missing something.
>
>
>

I was not aware of this either until Tom pointed it out: There syntax
allows the LANGUAGE clause to precede the AS clause.

What is more, a quoting mechaninsm is needed in other contexts, although
this is the most significant one.

From what I can see Tom's suggestion has the concensus support.

cheers

andrew