On May 16, 2006, at 14:17 , Tom Lane wrote:
> [1] Mostly. There's the infamous continued-string-literal
> construct...
Are you referring to this?
est=# SELECT 'foo' 'bar'; -- invalid
ERROR: syntax error at or near "'bar'" at character 17
LINE 1: SELECT 'foo' 'bar'; ^
test=# SELECT 'foo'
test-# 'bar'; -- valid
?column?
----------
foobar
(1 row)
I've been exploiting that (mis)feature for line-wrapping comments
after seeing it used that way somewhere. Very useful in that case,
but very strange, I'll give you that.
Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net