John Engelhart wrote:
> When this piece of code is wrapped fully inside a /* */ style comment block,
> the parser interprets the */ inside the substring() function as the end of
> comment.  'Expected' behavior (principle of least astonishment, at least) is
> that the .*/ part inside the substring function not trigger the end of
> comments.

The SQL standard does not provide for this kind of exception, so there
is no real use in discussing it.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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