Re: Parser extensions (maybe for 10?)

From: Aleksander Alekseev <a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Arcadiy Ivanov <arcadiy(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parser extensions (maybe for 10?)
Date: 2016-04-18 15:25:23
Message-ID: 20160418182523.3f70ad88@fujitsu
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> I cannot to imagine extensible parser based on bison. But the parser
> can be replaced by custom parser.
>
> Some like pgpool or pgbouncer does. The extension can assign own
> parser. Custom parser will be called first, and the integrated parser
> will be used from extension or as fallback. This can helps with new
> statements for background workers, theoretically it can helps with
> extending PostgreSQL SQL. Custom parser can do translation from SQL1
> to SQL2 dialect, or can do translation from SQL1 to internal calls.
> The custom parser usually should not implement full SQL - only few
> statements.
>
> Is it this idea more workable?

What if there are two or more contribs that extend the parser? Can we
be sure that these contribs will not conflict?

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev
http://eax.me/

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