On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I experimented a bit with mysql's behavior, and it seems that (at least
> in 5.1.51) what they do is treat "1and" or "2or" as if it were an
> identifier. =A0They're definitely not throwing an error, at least not on
>
I guess the eleant question is what the lexical elements section of
the standard says about identifiers. It pretty clearly declares that
they can't start with digits:
<identifier body> ::=3D <identifier start> [ <identifier part>... ]
<identifier part> ::=3D <identifier start> | <identifier extend>
<identifier start> ::=3D !! See the Syntax Rules
<identifier extend> ::=3D !! See the Syntax Rules
1) An <identifier start> is any character in the Unicode General
Category classes =93Lu=94, =93Ll=94, =93Lt=94, =93Lm=94, =93Lo=94, or =93Nl=
=94.
NOTE 70 =97 The Unicode General Category classes =93Lu=94, =93Ll=94, =93Lt=
=94, =93Lm=94,
=93Lo=94, and =93Nl=94 are assigned to Unicode characters that are,
respectively, upper-case letters, lower-case letters, title-case
letters, modifier letters, other letters, and letter numbers.
2) An <identifier extend> is U+00B7, =93Middle Dot=94, or any character in
the Unicode General Category classes =93Mn=94, =93Mc=94, =93Nd=94, =93Pc=94=
, or =93Cf=94.
NOTE 71 =97 The Unicode General Category classes =93Mn=94, =93Mc=94, =93Nd=
=94, =93Pc=94,
and =93Cf=94 are assigned to Unicode characters that are, respectively,
nonspacing marks, spacing combining marks, decimal numbers, connector
punctuations, and formatting codes.
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greg