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Subject: Description of disallowed characters in quoted identifiers is incomplete
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:58:22 +0000
Message-ID: <175312790281.787.11714206460573047530@wrigleys.postgresql.org> (raw)

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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/sql-syntax-lexical.html
Description:

Section 4.1.1 of the documentation claims that "Quoted identifiers can
contain any character, except the character with code zero." However
according to line 105 in src/test/isolation/specscanner.l in the PostgreSQL
source code, new line characters are also disallowed.


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