Thanks Tom Armand On May 17, 2017, at 4:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "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
