Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BTW, what happened to the $QUOTE$ quoting idea? Was it applied, or
even developed?
I'd like to see it done for 7.5, but haven't personally had time to go
further than the proof-of-concept backend patch I posted awhile ago.
I think the minimum amount of
Tom Lane wrote:
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.
IMHO it's not useless. pgAdmin already knows that quoting scheme...
Andreas Pflug wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
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.
IMHO it's not useless. pgAdmin already knows
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I see that psql/mainloop.c contains this comment:
* FIXME: rewrite this whole thing with flex
Is now the time to do that?
If you feel like giving it a shot, ain't nobody gonna stand in your way.
MainLoop() is well past the level of unmaintainability
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I see that psql/mainloop.c contains this comment:
* FIXME: rewrite this whole thing with flex
Is now the time to do that?
If you feel like giving it a shot, ain't nobody gonna stand in your way.
MainLoop() is well past the level of
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:17:11AM -0800, David Fetter wrote:
[Moved to hackers -- this belongs to -docs anyway, doesn't it?]
With all due respect, Peter, it is only implicit in the docs, and that
is not always good enough. An explicit example will help, as
PostgreSQL's quoting system would
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
BTW, what happened to the $QUOTE$ quoting idea? Was it applied, or
even developed?
I believe it's still on the to-do list, but was pushed off until 7.5 or
whenever it gets done.
Jon
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:17:11AM -0800, David Fetter wrote:
[Moved to hackers -- this belongs to -docs anyway, doesn't it?]
With all due respect, Peter, it is only implicit in the docs, and that
is not always good enough. An explicit example will help, as
