Re: [GENERAL] column names and dollar sign

> On May 17, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Armand Pirvu (home) <armand.pirvu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Ran into the following statement
>
> CREATE TABLE test(
>     Date$ date,
>     Month_Number$ int,
>     Month$ varchar(10),
>     Year$ int
> );
>
>
> While it does execute, I wonder if the $ has any special meaning ?
>
> Can anyone shed some light please ?

No special meaning to postgresql - in postgresql a dollar sign is a valid character in an identifier.

It might have some special meaning to the app that was using it, perhaps.

Cheers,
  Steve