Re: Feature Request: Allow additional special characters at the beginning of the name.

2021-10-12 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Simon writes: > I’m not asking for a change in how PostgreSQL manages variables, but > whether it’s possible to allow the @ sign, and possibly the $ sign to > start a variable name. @ is allowed in operator names, and indeed is used in (mumble select count(*) ...) 59 built-in operators. S

Feature Request: Allow additional special characters at the beginning of the name.

2021-10-12 Thread Mark Simon
I am very new to this list, so I don’t know whether this is the right place. Microsoft SQL and MySQL both use the @ sign at the beginning of their variables. The most obvious benefit of this is that it is very easy to distinguish between variable names and column names. I’m not asking for a c