Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> writes: > there are two quoting styles, so we need two syntax. I proposed
> :[var] and :{var} - for ident quoting and literal quoting. > Theoretically we could to use :(var) for bytea escaping. And if you need a fourth style, you're at a dead end. I don't think this is really an improvement over the single-flag-character approach. Neither one has got any mnemonic value whatever, unfortunately, but at least the flag character method is fairly extensible. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers