Re: psql feature thought

From: Thomas Hallgren <thomas(at)tada(dot)se>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql feature thought
Date: 2006-05-16 05:31:00
Message-ID: 44696394.2030801@tada.se
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Tom Lane wrote:

> Quite aside from the compatibility and how-useful-is-it-really
> arguments, I think this'd be a bad idea in the abstract. SQL is not one
> of those languages that assigns semantic significance to the shape of
> whitespace [1]. We should NOT introduce any such concept into psql,
> because it'd fundamentally break the lexical structure of the language.

+1

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren

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