| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] dollar quoting |
| Date: | 2004-02-15 22:17:18 |
| Message-ID: | 11070.1076883438@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> andrew=# create table ab$cd$ef (ef$cd$ab text);
> CREATE TABLE
> andrew=# \d ab$cd$ef
> Did not find any relation named "ab$cd$ef".
Hmph. I always thought that "$" was only special at the end of a regex,
but that doesn't seem to be how our implementation treats it. Anyway
this is not a bug, it is a feature: the argument of \d is a regex.
regards, tom lane
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