Re: about date/time parser

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Gevik Babakhani" <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: about date/time parser
Date: 2008-02-21 17:27:59
Message-ID: 12216.1203614879@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Gevik Babakhani" <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl> writes:
> Would a yacc/lex parser be better?

Almost certainly neither workable nor an improvement if you did make it
work. Datetimes don't have enough structure to make yacc useful, and
it's not flexible enough either.

regards, tom lane

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