Re: massive quotes?

Tom Lane wrote:

>Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
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>>So you are requiring the identical text to appear at the beginning and
>>end of the quote, rather than a here document that would be:
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>> <<END
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>> END
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>>or in your example:
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>> $$END
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>> END
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>Yes, I was thinking of requiring the $$ to appear at both beginning and
>end. This is perhaps not critical, but it seems more symmetric that
>way. Also, we might even be able to get away with allowing SQL text to
>resume on the same line as the terminator, for example
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> CREATE FUNCTION foo() RETURNS int AS $$FUNCTION
> ... text here ...
> $$FUNCTION LANGUAGE plpgsql;
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>I would not want to risk that with a plain word as terminator, but $$
>helps a lot to make it distinctive.
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This discussion now seems to be on the right track - thanks for
recognising a need, meeting which will clearly improve the useability of
the product.

cheers

andrew