| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: massive quotes? |
| Date: | 2003-09-11 21:28:52 |
| Message-ID: | 200309112128.h8BLSqt09400@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Jan Wieck wrote:
> >> The beauty of here-documents is that you specify your closing tag on a
> >> per usage base and can vary that depending on the content you need to
> >> enclose. Keep in mind that this literal mechanism is not only used for
> >> PL/pgSQL, but for other languages like PL/Tcl and PL/Perl as well.
> >> Imagine the pain for a Tcl programmer if we'd go with curly braces!
> >
> > Oh, non-SQL languages. OK, I agree, we need HERE documents, and I think
> > we all agree it has to be done in the lexer.
> >
>
> Not only. psql by default sends the edit buffer when it encounters the
> ";". You don't want that to happen inside of the here document. So it
> has to duplicate that logic.
Yep, good point. It already understands quoting and comments, so it
will have to understand this too.
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