Re: Dollar in identifiers

>     I'm  not sure if it's according to or violating the standard.
>     But most other databases allow a '$' inside  of  identifiers.
>     Well,  most  of  them recommend not to use it, but hey guy's,
>     what's a recommendation for a programmer?
> 
>     In order to lower porting issues, I think it'd be nice to add
>     that  to  PostgreSQL  as  well.  It's  two more characters in
>     scan.l and doesn't break the regression test.
> 
>     Objections?

Yes.  We would move from standard C identifiers to $ identifiers.  We
have had zero requests for this so I see no need to add it.

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