Re: bug in (plpgsql) parser?

> Hello world,
>
> I am using "PostgreSQL 7.1.2 on i386-unknown-freebsd4.2, compiled by GCC
> 2.95.2" (according to version()). I suspect that there is a parser bug in
> the handling of '--' comments:
>
> radius=# create function test() returns integer as '
> radius'# begin
> radius'# -- comment without quotes
> radius'# return 0;
> radius'# end;
> radius'# ' language 'plpgsql';
> CREATE
>
> This works OK
>
> radius=#
> radius=# create function test2() returns integer as '
> radius'# begin
> radius'# -- comment 'with' quotes
> radius'# return 0;
> radius'# end;
> radius'# ' language 'plpgsql';
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "with"
>
> It seems that the parser does not ignore the rest of the line after the '--
> ', as I would suspect...
>
> Reinoud van Leeuwen
> (switched from Sybase to Postgresql two weeks ago and has no regrets! :-)

My question is whether you think "--" _inside_ quotes should be a
comment. I don't think it should be.

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