From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Description of disallowed characters in quoted identifiers is
 incomplete
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PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> 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.

I'm not sure why you would think that specscanner.l is relevant
here.  It's for parsing our (rather idiosyncratic) "isolation
test" spec files, not SQL.

			regards, tom lane