Re: [RFC] Extend namespace of valid guc names

On 2013-02-25 21:13:25 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > b) allow variables to start with a digit from the second level onwards.
> 
> That seems like a seriously bad idea.  I note that SET does *not* allow
> this;

Hm. One thing about this is that we currently allow something silly as:
SET "1"."1bar""blub" = 3;

So I'd like to either restrict SET here or allow the same for guc-file.l
parsed GUCs. Any opinions?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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