On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> writes: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:06:30AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Hmm ... actually, ecpg might be a problem here anyway. I know it has >> special meaning for :name, but does it allow space between the colon >> and the name? If it does then the colon syntax loses. If it doesn't
> No. Here's the lexer rule: > <SQL>:{identifier}((("->"|\.){identifier})|(\[{array}\]))* > No space possible between ":" and {identifier}.
Excellent. I checked that psql's colon-variable feature behaves the same. So it looks like the proposed "name: value" syntax would indeed not break any existing features. Barring better ideas I think we should go with that one.