"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> I'd sure love $, as it's like shell, Perl, and other stuff.
This discussion has gotten utterly off track. The problem I am trying
to solve is a non-Oracle-compatible behavior in plpgsql. I have got
substantially less than zero interest in proposals that "solve" the
problem by introducing notations that don't even pretend to be
compatible.
regards, tom lane