diff --git a/data/syntax/sql-postgresql.xml b/data/syntax/sql-postgresql.xml
--- a/data/syntax/sql-postgresql.xml
+++ b/data/syntax/sql-postgresql.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <!-- PostgreSQL SQL, syntax definition based on sql.xml by Yury Lebedev
      v5 fix comments by Gene Thomas <gene@genethomas.com>
   -->
-<language name="SQL (PostgreSQL)" version="8" kateversion="5.0" section="Database" extensions="*.sql;*.SQL;*.ddl;*.DDL" mimetype="text/x-sql" casesensitive="0" author="Shane Wright (me@shanewright.co.uk)" license="">
+<language name="SQL (PostgreSQL)" version="9" kateversion="5.0" section="Database" extensions="*.sql;*.SQL;*.ddl;*.DDL" mimetype="text/x-sql" casesensitive="0" author="Shane Wright (me@shanewright.co.uk)" license="">
   <highlighting>
     <list name="controlFlow">
       <item>BEGIN</item>
@@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@
         <Float attribute="Float" context="#stay"/>
         <Int attribute="Decimal" context="#stay"/>
         <DetectChar attribute="String" context="String" char="'"/>
-        <DetectChar attribute="Comment" context="Identifier" char="&quot;"/>
+        <DetectChar attribute="Identifier" context="Identifier" char="&quot;"/>
         <AnyChar attribute="Symbol" context="#stay" String=":&#38;"/>
         <RegExpr attribute="Preprocessor" context="Preprocessor" String="@@?[^@ \t\r\n]" column="0"/>
         <RegExpr attribute="Operator" context="MultiLineString" String="\$([^\$\n\r]*)\$"/>