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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: John DeSoi <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: docs correction (8.0 beta)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:01:08 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> You are confusing SQL and PL/pgSQL.

> Any idea why they don't match between SQL and PL/pgSQL.

Different lexers.

We could talk about extending plpgsql's lexer to handle comments the
same way as the main SQL lexer, but it doesn't do so ATM.  (Also, there
is compatibility with Oracle PL/SQL to think about before assuming such
a change must be a Good Thing...)

			regards, tom lane

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