Re: massive quotes?

Jan Wieck wrote:
> >> The beauty of here-documents is that you specify your closing tag on a 
> >> per usage base and can vary that depending on the content you need to 
> >> enclose. Keep in mind that this literal mechanism is not only used for 
> >> PL/pgSQL, but for other languages like PL/Tcl and PL/Perl as well. 
> >> Imagine the pain for a Tcl programmer if we'd go with curly braces!
> > 
> > Oh, non-SQL languages.  OK, I agree, we need HERE documents, and I think
> > we all agree it has to be done in the lexer.
> > 
> 
> Not only. psql by default sends the edit buffer when it encounters the 
> ";". You don't want that to happen inside of the here document. So it 
> has to duplicate that logic.

Yep, good point.  It already understands quoting and comments, so it
will have to understand this too.

--  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610)
359-1001+  If your life is a hard drive,     |  13 Roberts Road +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Newtown Square,
Pennsylvania19073