| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Joel Burton <joel(at)joelburton(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Updated CREATE FUNCTION syntax |
| Date: | 2002-05-17 13:36:43 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0205171338280.1096-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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Joel Burton writes:
> Is there any standardized way of handling the single-quotes within function
> definition? Rather than doubling them up (which can make for very messy code
> when your scripting language uses single quotes!), allowing another symbol
> to be used, with that symbol be declared in the CREATE FUNCTION line?
> Interbase uses a system like this: you can set the delimiter to anything you
> want and use that instead of '.
I think we need something like that. How exactly does Interbase "set" the
delimiter? Keep in mind that our lexer and parser are static.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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