On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:04:43PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> Man that's ugly. Why the ampersand? > > Yeah, excellent question. It seems completely unnecessary, but it is > surely there in the syntax diagram.
Probably because many Unicode representations are done with "U+" followed by 4-6 hexadecimal units, but "+" is problematic for other reasons (in some vendor's implementation)? A -- Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 503 667 4564 x104 http://www.commandprompt.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
