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Robert Stupp commented on CASSANDRA-7769:
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pg-style strings in cqlsh is a bigger thing.
I've added this plus some other minor struff in {{cql3handling.py}}:
{noformat}
<pgStringLiteral> ::= /(\$[a-z][a-z0-9_]+\$).*(\$[a-z][a-z0-9_]+\$)/;
{noformat}
But it should look like this:
{noformat}
<pgStringLiteral> ::= /(\$[a-z][a-z0-9_]+\$).*\1/;
{noformat}
means it should use a group reference. But group references are not supported
by SafeScanner. I got down to the point where SafeScanner mangles everything
into one single group for everything - so group references cannot work at all.
I also tried to use named groups without success.
Means: it's not impossible to use pg-style strings in cqlsh but it's definitely
not a trivial thing.
> Implement pg-style dollar syntax for string constants
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-7769
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7769
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Robert Stupp
> Assignee: Robert Stupp
> Fix For: 3.0
>
> Attachments: 7769.txt, 7769v2.txt
>
>
> Follow-up of CASSANDRA-7740:
> {{$function$...$function$}} in addition to string style variant.
> See also
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-DOLLAR-QUOTING
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