Re: pgsql: Allow for X as well as x to be the prefix for hexadecimal

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Allow for X as well as x to be the prefix for hexadecimal
Date: 2007-11-25 20:52:26
Message-ID: 22003.1196023946@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> writes:
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Allow for X as well as x to be the prefix for hexadecimal character ref entity numbers,
>> as in HTML.

> So, '&x128;' is an entity ? Is't really true ?

Well, unless you want to put in some knowledge about which identifiers
are known entities, I don't see how to reject that. It's not a numeric
entity, sure, but it looks just like a named entity.

regards, tom lane

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