Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Sounds good. I just think keywords in general are weird to use for
> quoting. We use "'" for quoting, so something similar like another
> operator combination would be nice. I have never been fond of the
> here-document approach, though I can see the value of doing
> here-documents in here-documents, though if we make the open and close
> of the quote string different <--, -->, we can still do that, no?
>
The beauty of here-documents is that you specify your closing tag on a
per usage base and can vary that depending on the content you need to
enclose. Keep in mind that this literal mechanism is not only used for
PL/pgSQL, but for other languages like PL/Tcl and PL/Perl as well.
Imagine the pain for a Tcl programmer if we'd go with curly braces!
Jan
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