Tom Lane wrote:
"Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:I think calling it 'here-document' quoting is possibly unwise - it is sufficiently different from here documents in shell and perl contexts to make it confusing.
I agree. I've tried to think of a better alternative name, but without much success.
We could call it meta-quoting, or alternative quoting, maybe.
Those seem pretty unmemorable and content-free, though. Any other ideas out there?
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regards, tom lane
PS: btw, I have realized that the seemingly obvious algorithm for choosing a delimiter string for given text is wrong. I had imagined it as "try $$, $Q$, $QQ$, $QQQ$, etc, until you find a delimiter not present in the given text string". This is not right because, for example, if the string ends with $Q then $Q$ is not a usable delimiter ($Q$...$Q$Q$ would be misparsed). The simplest correct algorithm is "try $, $Q, $QQ, $QQQ, etc until you find a string not present in the given text string; then use that with a $ appended".
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