On 03/27/2011 09:42 AM, David Fetter wrote:
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 09:12:33PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:As I've said before, I believe that the root cause of this problem is that using the same syntax for variables and column names is a bad idea in the first place. If we used $foo or ?foo or ${foo} or $.foo or&&foo!!$#? to mean "the parameter called foo", then this would all be a non-issue.How about psql's :foo syntax?
Surely the time has long gone when we could have made such a choice. And the choice was not made in a vacuum.
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