On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > That doesn't mean we should arbitrarily break compatibility with pl/sql, nor > that we should feel free to add on warts such as $varname that are > completely at odds with the style of the rest of the language. That doesn't > do anything except produce a mess.
Well, what it does is avoid breaking compatibility with previous versions of PostgreSQL. I think that actually does have some value. Otherwise, we'd be folding to upper-case by default. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
