Bruce Momjian wrote:
Sounds good. I just think keywords in general are weird to use for quoting. We use "'" for quoting, so something similar like another operator combination would be nice. I have never been fond of the here-document approach, though I can see the value of doing here-documents in here-documents, though if we make the open and close of the quote string different <--, -->, we can still do that, no?
The beauty of here-documents is that you specify your closing tag on a per usage base and can vary that depending on the content you need to enclose. Keep in mind that this literal mechanism is not only used for PL/pgSQL, but for other languages like PL/Tcl and PL/Perl as well. Imagine the pain for a Tcl programmer if we'd go with curly braces!
Jan
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