bug in (plpgsql) parser?

Hello world,

I am using "PostgreSQL 7.1.2 on i386-unknown-freebsd4.2, compiled by GCC
2.95.2" (according to version()). I suspect that there is a parser bug in
the handling of '--' comments:

radius=# create function test() returns integer as '
radius'# begin
radius'#   -- comment without quotes
radius'#   return 0;
radius'# end;
radius'# ' language 'plpgsql';
CREATE

This works OK

radius=#
radius=# create function test2() returns integer as '
radius'# begin
radius'#   -- comment 'with' quotes
radius'#   return 0;
radius'# end;
radius'# ' language 'plpgsql';
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "with"

It seems that the parser does not ignore the rest of the line after the '--
', as I would suspect...

Reinoud van Leeuwen
(switched from Sybase to Postgresql two weeks ago and has no regrets! :-)