Thanks  Tom

Armand

On May 17, 2017, at 4:14 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> "Armand Pirvu (home)" <armand.pi...@gmail.com> writes:
>> Ran into the following statement
> 
>> CREATE TABLE test(
>>      Date$ date,
>>      Month_Number$ int,
>>      Month$ varchar(10),
>>      Year$ int
>> );
> 
>> While it does execute, I wonder if the $ has any special meaning ?
> 
> Postgres thinks it's a valid identifier character, as long as it's
> not the first character.  I don't believe it's standard SQL, but
> we hacked it in a long time ago for compatibility with Oracle or
> somebody like that.
> 
>                       regards, tom lane



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