Jan Wieck wrote: > > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Sounds good. I just think keywords in general are weird to use for > > quoting. We use "'" for quoting, so something similar like another > > operator combination would be nice. I have never been fond of the > > here-document approach, though I can see the value of doing > > here-documents in here-documents, though if we make the open and close > > of the quote string different <--, -->, we can still do that, no? > > > > The beauty of here-documents is that you specify your closing tag on a > per usage base and can vary that depending on the content you need to > enclose. Keep in mind that this literal mechanism is not only used for > PL/pgSQL, but for other languages like PL/Tcl and PL/Perl as well. > Imagine the pain for a Tcl programmer if we'd go with curly braces!
Oh, non-SQL languages. OK, I agree, we need HERE documents, and I think we all agree it has to be done in the lexer. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
