bug in (plpgsql) parser?

Hello world,

I am using "PostgreSQL 7.1.2 on i386-unknown-freebsd4.2, compiled by GCC
2.95.2" (according to version()). I suspect that there is a parser bug in
the handling of '--' comments:

radius=# create function test() returns integer as '
radius'# begin
radius'# -- comment without quotes
radius'# return 0;
radius'# end;
radius'# ' language 'plpgsql';
CREATE

This works OK

radius=#
radius=# create function test2() returns integer as '
radius'# begin
radius'# -- comment 'with' quotes
radius'# return 0;
radius'# end;
radius'# ' language 'plpgsql';
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "with"

It seems that the parser does not ignore the rest of the line after the '--
', as I would suspect...

Reinoud van Leeuwen
(switched from Sybase to Postgresql two weeks ago and has no regrets! :-)

My question is whether you think "--" _inside_ quotes should be a
comment. I don't think it should be.

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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

My question is whether you think "--" _inside_ quotes should be a
comment. I don't think it should be.

It should be if plpgsql thinks it is. But that's not the problem here.
Doubling the quote marks would help...

regards, tom lane