Re: Bug in AbstracJdbc2Statement.replaceProcessing when using dollar quoting?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Maciek Sakrejda <m(dot)sakrejda(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: David Johnston <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, GEISINGER Marc - Contractor <Marc(dot)GEISINGER(at)external(dot)thalesgroup(dot)com>, pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bug in AbstracJdbc2Statement.replaceProcessing when using dollar quoting?
Date: 2012-09-24 18:33:47
Message-ID: 20516.1348511627@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Maciek Sakrejda <m(dot)sakrejda(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:54 AM, David Johnston <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>> Is there any SQL syntax that allows for a dollar-sign outside of a string
>> literal? If not then if we are not in a string and we encounter a
>> dollar-sign we could assume that we are dealing with a PostgreSQL string and
>> immediately return the original input unchanged.

> Identifiers can also contain "$" when quoted:

Identifiers can contain "$" even when not quoted ...

regression=# create table foo$ (bar$ int);
CREATE TABLE

I don't think that's per SQL spec, but PG allows it, mainly because some
other databases do.

regards, tom lane

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