Re: why does this not give a syntax error?

On Jun 10, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com> writes:
>> pg 9.2:
>> delete from "ExternalDocument" where id = 11825657and "Billed" = 'f';
>
> "11825657and" is not any more lexically ambiguous than "11825657+".
> It has to be two separate tokens, and that's how it's read.

But it's not read correctly. In other words:

delete from "ExternalDocument" where id = 11825657and "Billed" = 'f';

deleted 0 rows, while:

delete from "ExternalDocument" where id = 11825657 and "Billed" = 'f';

deleted 1 row.

???

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