[Pkg-postgresql-private] Going to fix #209171

Michael Meskes meskes@debian.org
Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:42:27 +0200


On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:41:04PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > BTW, what shall we do about #203519 (the '' in ' comments thingy)? The
> > way Oliver describes the problem sounds like wontfix.
> 
> To fix this would require a major change to CREATE FUNCTION, because it
> doesn't parse the function code until the function is run.  So it
> doesn't know anything about comments.  Since it is possible to define
> your own language, it is unreasonable to expect CREATE FUNCTION to know
> about the syntax of the arbitrary code specified by AS 'xxx'.
> 
> I should definitely mark it wontfix.  You may care to pass it upstream
> if you wish; I didn't think it worthwhile.

I doubt that upstream will do anything but explain with the same
reasoning why it is not possible to do this. :-)

Michael
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