Inaccurate documentation about identifiers

From: Brennan Vincent <brennan(at)umanwizard(dot)com>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Inaccurate documentation about identifiers
Date: 2022-11-16 13:36:03
Message-ID: feb15ca0-f449-c862-9414-66220e80304d@umanwizard.com
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Hello,

The documentation states:

"SQL identifiers and key words must begin with a letter (a-z, but also letters
with diacritical marks and non-Latin letters) or an underscore (_). Subsequent
characters in an identifier or key word can be letters, underscores, digits
(0-9), or dollar signs ($)"

However, it seems that all non-ASCII characters are considered "letters" by the

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