Re: [HACKERS] jsonb problematic operators

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
>> On 12 December 2016 at 04:59, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>> I didn't realise Pg's use of ? was that old, so thanks. That makes
>>> offering alternatives much less appealing.
>>
>> One option might be for Postgres to define duplicate operator names
>> using ¿ or something else. I think ¿ is a good choice because it's a
>> common punctuation mark in spanish so it's probably not hard to find
>> on a lot of keyboards or hard to find instructions on how to type one.
>>
>> There is always a risk in allowing redundant syntaxes though. For
>> example people running grep to find all uses of an operator will miss
>> the alternate spelling. There may even be security implications for
>> that though to be honest that seems unlikely in this case.
>
> Are you sure that using a non-ASCII character is a good idea for an
> in-core operator? I would think no.

I would agree with your thought.

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