Re: [HACKERS] FOREIGN KEY and shift/reduce

> > Well, I'm not a guru, but I looked anyway. It's a mess. The problem
> > is that when NOT is the next token, the grammar doesn't know whether
> > the NOT is starting NOT NULL, which would be a new ColConstraintElem,
> > or starting NOT DEFERRABLE, which would be part of the current
> > ColConstraintElem. So it can't decide whether it's time to reduce
> > the current stack contents to a finished ColConstraintElem or not.
> > The only way to do that is to look ahead further than the NOT.
> Tom and I talked about moving NOT DEFERED up into the main level with
> NOT NULL.
>
> In gram.y, line 949 and line, could there be a test that if the last
> List element of $1 is a constraint, and if $2 is NOT DEFERED, we can set
> the bit in $1 and just skip adding the defered node? If not, we can
> throw an error.

Also, I am using flex 2.5.4, and an seeing no shift-reduce errors from
the current gram.y.

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