Philip Warner wrote:
At 01:07 PM 12/08/2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
\ is not magical inside dollar quotes,
Sorry, I was confused by the manual: the paragraph that starts
"C-style backslash escapes are also available..." is right after the
paragraphs on dollar-quoting.
The section on dollar-quot
Philip Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 01:07 PM 12/08/2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> \ is not magical inside dollar quotes,
> Sorry, I was confused by the manual: the paragraph that starts "C-style
> backslash escapes are also available..." is right after the paragraphs on
> dollar-quoti
Philip Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 12:47 PM 12/08/2004, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Backslashes are not special inside
>> dollar quotes --- nor is anything else, except the matching close tag
> If they are not special, then shouldnt:
> select $a$\$a$;
> result in
> ?column?
>\
>
At 01:07 PM 12/08/2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
\ is not magical inside dollar quotes,
Sorry, I was confused by the manual: the paragraph that starts "C-style
backslash escapes are also available..." is right after the paragraphs on
dollar-quoting.
The section on dollar-quoting is also not explici
Philip Warner wrote:
While trying to understand dollar-quoting, I found the following in psql:
select $a$ hello $a$;
behaves as expected, but psql does not like
select $a$ \ $a$;
or
select $a$ \\ $a$;
Should it? How should a dollar-quote handle:
$a$ \$a\$a $a$
?
andrew=# select $a$ \
At 12:47 PM 12/08/2004, Tom Lane wrote:
Backslashes are not special inside
dollar quotes --- nor is anything else, except the matching close tag
If they are not special, then shouldnt:
select $a$\$a$;
result in
?column?
\
rather than an error?
Oops. It does.
--
At 12:47 PM 12/08/2004, Tom Lane wrote:
Backslashes are not special inside
dollar quotes --- nor is anything else, except the matching close tag
If they are not special, then shouldnt:
select $a$\$a$;
result in
?column?
\
rather than an error?
--
Philip Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While trying to understand dollar-quoting, I found the following in psql:
> select $a$ hello $a$;
> behaves as expected, but psql does not like
> select $a$ \ $a$;
> or
> select $a$ \\ $a$;
Define "does not like". The behavior seems correc
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
After staring at the code for a long time, I think I see how to do
this. It's complicated a bit by the fact that $ is a valid
identifier character. So my current thinking is to say that if we
see $ not in a quo
Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does it _have_ to be dollars? Other languages call this feature
> 'heretext' IIRC.
I'm not in love with the name "dollar quoting" either ... but "here
text" would be quite misleading. See the archives for the discussions
that led us to devel
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > I don't mind if it's on by default; just thinking that some people might
> > appreciate a way to turn it off. "-X disable-dollar-quoting" sounds
> > fine.
>
> Does it _have_ to be dollars? Other languages call this feature
> 'heretext' II
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
I don't mind if it's on by default; just thinking that some people might
appreciate a way to turn it off. "-X disable-dollar-quoting" sounds
fine.
Does it _have_ to be dollars? Other languages call this feature
'heretext' IIRC.
This is not heretext, and calli
I don't mind if it's on by default; just thinking that some people might
appreciate a way to turn it off. "-X disable-dollar-quoting" sounds
fine.
Does it _have_ to be dollars? Other languages call this feature
'heretext' IIRC.
Chris
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Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> A thought: maybe just put this logic into the regular
>> appendStringLiteral routine, and trigger it when the string contains any
>> quotes or backslashes; if it has none, you can just use quotes ...
> I did think of fallback, but rej
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ... using it in dumping function bodies and comments on all objects,
> with a prefix argument of "function" and "comment" respectively. There
> might be other places where we want to use dollar quoting, but this
> would be a good start, ISTM.
Do we r
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. Is there any reason to exclude underscore as the first char of a
> dollar quoting delimiter (after the $), e.g. $_foo_$? I'm happy either
> way, just want to be as liberal as is reasonable.
I think we had agreed to "same rules as identifiers, excep
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
After staring at the code for a long time, I think I see how to do this.
It's complicated a bit by the fact that $ is a valid identifier
character. So my current thinking is to say that if we see $ not in a
quote and not preceded b
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After staring at the code for a long time, I think I see how to do this.
> It's complicated a bit by the fact that $ is a valid identifier
> character. So my current thinking is to say that if we see $ not in a
> quote and not preceded by a valid iden
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
I kinda thought you had volunteered to work on the psql part...
I don't recall being that specific, but you could be right. In any
case, I didn't want to trip over anyone else, which is why I asked.
I will try to coordinate with Jon.
After starin
Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
IIRC, a consensus was reached on the actual format of the quote
delimiters (either $$ or $identifier$), and Tom had a proof of concept
patch to the parser to handle it, but work was needed on psql, plpgsql,
pg_dump (and pg_restore?
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> IIRC, a consensus was reached on the actual format of the quote
> delimiters (either $$ or $identifier$), and Tom had a proof of concept
> patch to the parser to handle it, but work was needed on psql, plpgsql,
> pg_dump (and pg_restore?) + docs.
I t
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> What has become of the "dollar quoting" mechanism that we had so much
> discussion about back in August/September?
>
> IIRC, a consensus was reached on the actual format of the quote
> delimiters (either $$ or $identifier$), and Tom had a proof of con
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