Re: quotes in SET grammar

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Thomas Lockhart <thomas(at)fourpalms(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: quotes in SET grammar
Date: 2002-02-26 19:20:50
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0202261420130.685-100000@peter.localdomain
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Thomas Lockhart writes:

> Well, that would be how to distinguish them; we could define a new
> token, say "QIDENT" to refer to quoted identifiers and leave "IDENT" for
> the unquoted ones. Then a little work in gram.y should be enough to
> finish the job.

Is this confusion really worth it? What's wrong with being able to write:

set something to "on";

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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