Tom Lane wrote:
IMHO it's not useless. pgAdmin already knows that quoting scheme... not yet tested, I'll have to check that patch.
I think the minimum amount of additional work that has to be done before
we can apply it is to teach psql's input parser about $QUOTE$ ---
without that, the feature is not only useless but counterproductive.
OTOH we sure want it for psql - being able to use this in scripts fed to psql is very important IMNSHO.
I see that psql/mainloop.c contains this comment:
* FIXME: rewrite this whole thing with flex
Is now the time to do that? It would be a pity if substantial changes were made here only to be thrown away ...
cheers
andrew
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