On Oct 19, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
I think warnings are too easy to miss, but I agree your other suggestion. I know you can write function_name.variable_name, but that's often massively long-winded. We either need a short, fixed prefix, or some kind of sigil. I previously suggested ? to parallel ECPG, but Tom didn't like it. I still do. :-)
I suppose that $ would interfere with dollar quoting. What about @ or @@ (sorry, I did mess with MSSQL back in the 90s).
Hrm…PostgreSQL is starting to have the same problem as Perl: running out of characters because they're used for operators. :var would be perfect, if it wasn't for psql. ?var is okay, I guess, if a bit… questionable. Are {braces} used for anything?
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