Re: [HACKERS] scanner/parser for FOREIGN KEY

> > AFAIR that was the only concrete solution offered. I think Thomas
> > wanted to look into whether he could tweak the grammar to avoid the
> > problem without lookahead, but he hasn't produced any results ---
> > and I misdoubt that a fix done that way will be any cleaner than
> > inserting a lexer lookahead interface.
> > In short, it's fine by me but I dunno if Thomas has signed on yet.
>
> I glanced at it, but have not had a chance to dive in. There had been
> so many changes to the parser code while I was off playing with outer
> join syntax that I decided to start over (lots of what I had done
> needed to be cleaned up anyway).
>
> I hope to get back to development within a few days, but in the
> meantime my parser is re-broken and I haven't yet fixed Jan's parts. I
> hate to be holding up Jan, but otoh I hate to see us having to use a
> new techique for parsing if the usual ones can be made to work...

Agreed. Maybe Thomas and I can get on the phone and hammer out a fix.

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