Re: Dollar in identifiers

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dollar in identifiers
Date: 2001-08-17 15:49:18
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0108171737190.677-100000@peter.localdomain
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Tom Lane writes:

> Option 2 improves Oracle compatibility, at the price of breaking
> backwards compatibility for applications that presently use $ as part
> of multi-character operator names. (But does anyone know of any?)

Hmm, postgresql-7.2devel_petere_privatebranch... :-(

Well, the Euro is already allowed in identifiers, so I rest.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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