> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:27 PM
> To: Jan Wieck
> Cc: Bruce Momjian; Peter Eisentraut; PostgreSQL HACKERS
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Dollar in identifiers 
> 
> 
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> > The problem is, discouraged or not, if there's a slot people will 
> > stick something into ... meaning if it accepts a dollar, to 
> hell with 
> > vendor recommendations!
> 
> I'm confused; are you voting against allowing dollar in 
> identifiers? I thought it was you that proposed allowing it 
> in the first place ...

Suggestion:
Allow them, but issue a warning on schema creation that uses dollars in
identifiers.

"NOTICE: Dollar signs($) in identifiers are not allowed by ANSI/ISO SQL"

Something like that.

Thu, 9 Jan 2003 14:31:32 -0800
"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com>
Re: Dollar in identifiers 