On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> That doesn't mean we should arbitrarily break compatibility with pl/sql, nor
> that we should feel free to add on warts such as $varname that are
> completely at odds with the style of the rest of the language. That doesn't
> do anything except produce a mess.
Well, what it does is avoid breaking compatibility with previous
versions of PostgreSQL. I think that actually does have some value.
Otherwise, we'd be folding to upper-case by default.
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