Jan Wieck wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Not only. psql by default sends the edit buffer when it encounters the > ";". You don't want that to happen inside of the here document. So it > has to duplicate that logic.
Yep, good point. It already understands quoting and comments, so it will have to understand this too. -- 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 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
