"Armand Pirvu (home)" <armand.pirvu@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Ran into the following statement > CREATE TABLE test( > Date$ date, > Month_Number$ int, > Month$ varchar(10), > Year$ int > ); > While it does execute, I wonder if the $ has any special meaning ? Postgres thinks it's a valid identifier character, as long as it's not the first character. I don't believe it's standard SQL, but we hacked it in a long time ago for compatibility with Oracle or somebody like that. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general