Re: Can the string literal syntax for function definitions please be dropped ?

From: Timothy Madden <terminatorul(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can the string literal syntax for function definitions please be dropped ?
Date: 2009-10-25 16:17:04
Message-ID: 5078d8af0910250917m7a9e1cd2h46294c9b76810751@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Timothy Madden <terminatorul(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Can the string literal syntax for the function body in a CREATE FUNCTION
> > statement please,
> > please be dropped ?
>
> No. Since the function's language might be anything, there's no way to
> identify the end of the function body otherwise.
>

There is a SQL standard for this, and other DBMS look like they found a way
...

How come it can not be done ?

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