Re: massive quotes?

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> >My objection to the proposal FUNCTIONBODY is that it makes it look like
> >the feature is only useful in CREATE FUNCTION.  In point of fact, the
> >quoting facility could be used to construct any SQL string literal.  The
> >comparison points I am thinking about are shell here-documents and
> >Perl quoting conventions, both of which are used for many things.
> >  
> >
> Anyway,
> a viable solution seems to be very near, the general direction is quite 
> clear.
> Problem with pure literal quote strings is that they couldn't be 
> immediately adjacent to literal strings, so they should start end end 
> with special chars:
> 
> $QUOTE1$This is my string$ENDQUOTE1$

You mean if the special quotes are <-- and -->, <-----> would be the
same as '-'?

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