On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Michael Meskes <mes...@postgresql.org> writes:
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:06:30AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Hmm ... actually, ecpg might be a problem here anyway. I know it has
> >> special meaning for :name, but does it allow space between the colon
> >> and the name? If it does then the colon syntax loses. If it doesn't
>
> > No. Here's the lexer rule:
> > <SQL>:{identifier}((("->"|\.){identifier})|(\[{array}\]))*
> > No space possible between ":" and {identifier}.
>
> Excellent. I checked that psql's colon-variable feature behaves the
> same. So it looks like the proposed "name: value" syntax would indeed
> not break any existing features. Barring better ideas I think we should
> go with that one.
+1
"name: value" should be good enough
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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