"Armand Pirvu (home)" <armand.pi...@gmail.com> writes:
> Ran into the following statement

> CREATE TABLE test(
>       Date$ date,
>       Month_Number$ int,
>       Month$ varchar(10),
>       Year$ int
> );

> While it does execute, I wonder if the $ has any special meaning ?

Postgres thinks it's a valid identifier character, as long as it's
not the first character.  I don't believe it's standard SQL, but
we hacked it in a long time ago for compatibility with Oracle or
somebody like that.

                        regards, tom lane


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