Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> No, it won't. The problem is that it should, because the backend will
>> see that as '42' followed by a $foo$ quote start.
> Ok, I see what you are saying. This mismatch would only happen on
> invalid input, though. I believe that what I did will work on all legal
> input.
I'm unconvinced. Even if there are not any current syntaxes in which a
numeric literal can be adjacent to a string literal (I'm not totally
sure about that), what of the future? We should solve the problem
rather than assuming it won't bite us.
> I think that this might be cured by having psql recognise a legal
> identifier or keyword and eating it as a word, rather than treating it
> as just another set of bytes in the stream.
Hm, might work ... will think about it ...
regards, tom lane
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