Thanks Tom
Armand
On May 17, 2017, at 4:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Armand Pirvu (home)" <armand(dot)pirvu(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Ran into the following statement
>
>> CREATE TABLE test(
>> Date$ date,
>> Month_Number$ int,
>> Month$ varchar(10),
>> Year$ int
>> );
>
>> While it does execute, I wonder if the $ has any special meaning ?
>
> Postgres thinks it's a valid identifier character, as long as it's
> not the first character. I don't believe it's standard SQL, but
> we hacked it in a long time ago for compatibility with Oracle or
> somebody like that.
>
> regards, tom lane