Re: dollar quoting

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>IIRC, a consensus was reached on the actual format of the quote 
>>delimiters (either $$ or $identifier$), and Tom had a proof of concept 
>>patch to the parser to handle it, but work was needed on psql, plpgsql, 
>>pg_dump (and pg_restore?) + docs.
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>I think someone has to fix psql before we can consider applying the
>backend patch.  Fixing the other stuff can come after.
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Makes sense.

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>>Is anyone working on it?
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>I kinda thought you had volunteered to work on the psql part...
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I don't recall being that specific, but you could be right. In any case, 
I didn't want to trip over anyone else, which is why I asked.

I will try to coordinate with Jon.

cheers

andrew