Re: dollar quoting

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

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> Tom Lane wrote:
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>> I kinda thought you had volunteered to work on the psql part...
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> I don't recall being that specific, but you could be right. In any
> case, I didn't want to trip over anyone else, which is why I asked.
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> I will try to coordinate with Jon.
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After staring at the code for a long time, I think I see how to do this.
It's complicated a bit by the fact that $ is a valid identifier
character. So my current thinking is to say that if we see $ not in a
quote and not preceded by a valid identifier char then it is the start
of a $foo$ sequence. Or have I missed something? Can we validly see $ in
any other context?

BTW, Tom's proof of concept patch worked just fine for me. I changed the
allowed pattern to what I think was agreed:

dolqdelim \$([A-Za-z\200-\377][A-Za-z\200-\377_0-9]*)?\$

and changed some names and comments to remove misleading references to
"here docs".

cheers

andrew