| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Call for objections: revision of keyword classification |
| Date: | 2001-11-09 19:14:21 |
| Message-ID: | 200111091914.fA9JEL112903@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > A validation script is a good intermediate idea,
>
> IMHO a validation script would be *far* harder than the alternative
> I'm proposing, because it'd have to parse and interpret gram.y and
> keyword.c. Building a correct-by-construction set of keyword lists
> seems much easier than checking their rather messy representation
> in those files.
Agreed. It just removed the indirection problem mentioned by Thomas.
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