2009/12/25 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> If we do want to go >> with a single flag character, maybe it should just be a single or >> double quote: > >> :'foo - quote as a literal >> :"foo - quote as an ident > > I would've proposed that myself if I thought it would work, but I'm > afraid that it will wreak complete chaos from a parsing standpoint. > Half the tools in the world will think this is an incomplete literal, > and I'm not even very sure you could keep psql itself from getting > confused. >
I though about it too. > Hmm ... actually, though, what about combining the ideas: > > :'foo' - quote as a literal > :"foo" - quote as an ident > > This leaves us with nothing much as far as extensibility, but from > a mnemonic standpoint it's a large win. +1 Pavel > > 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
