Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'd like to see pg_dump use this mechanism for quoting, at least for > > function bodies. I guess it could retrieve the text and then keep > > generating delimiters until it found one that didn't occur inside the > > text. > > Right, that was what I had in mind. > > > Maybe for that purpose we could allow underscores as well as > > letters - I don't think that should introduce any extra ambiguities. > > Alternatively, or as well, maybe leading and trailing digits could be > > disallowed, but embedded digits could be allowed. IOW let's be as > > liberal as possible without breaking things. > > <shrug> I'd prefer to keep the rules as simple as possible. No > particular objection to underscores, but allowing digits in only some > places seems confusing.
Yep. If we can do C indentifiers (no digits to start), fine, if not, we just have to disallow them. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
