Re: Dollar in identifiers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:27 PM
> To: Jan Wieck
> Cc: Bruce Momjian; Peter Eisentraut; PostgreSQL HACKERS
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Dollar in identifiers
>
>
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> > The problem is, discouraged or not, if there's a slot people will
> > stick something into ... meaning if it accepts a dollar, to
> hell with
> > vendor recommendations!
>
> I'm confused; are you voting against allowing dollar in
> identifiers? I thought it was you that proposed allowing it
> in the first place ...

Suggestion:
Allow them, but issue a warning on schema creation that uses dollars in
identifiers.

"NOTICE: Dollar signs($) in identifiers are not allowed by ANSI/ISO SQL"

Something like that.