Re: massive quotes?

Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> writes:
> Why not regard anything between "AS" and LANGUAGE as source?

That seems quite impractical, considering that the function body may be
in a language that has little in common with SQL even at the lexical
level. The SQL parser couldn't even tell what was a comment or quoted
string with any reliability.

> This would
> prevent the usage of LANGUAGE as a keyword inside the function
> definition, but I can't think of any senseful other use anyway.

Would you be unhappy if "language" appearing in what you think is a
comment in the function body caused a failure? How about "language"
in what you think is a quoted literal string?

Another problem is that the CREATE FUNCTION syntax doesn't insist on any
particular ordering of the attributes; there's nothing saying that
LANGUAGE must be the first thing after the AS clause.

regards, tom lane