Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer

Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 16:37 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Comments, objections, better ideas?
>
> > Please, if you do this, make it optional.
>
> I don't think making the plpgsql lexer pluggable is realistic.
>
> > Potentially changing the behaviour of thousands of functions just to fix
> > a rare bug will not endear us to our users. The bug may be something
> > that people are relying on in some subtle way, ugly as that sounds.
>
> That's why I don't want to change it in a minor release. In a major
> release, however, it's fair game.

Well, this bug has existed long before 8.4 so we could just leave it for
8.5, and it is not like we have had tons of complaints; the only
complaint I saw was one from March, 2008.

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