Re: remaining sql/json patches

On 2023-Nov-27, Amit Langote wrote:

> > For example, the jump between 13 and 14 looks worse.
> > (I do wonder what happened there.)
>
> The following commit sounds like it might be related?

Yes, but not only that one. I did some more trolling in the commit log
for the 14 timeframe further and found that the following commits are
the ones with highest additions to YYLAST during that cycle:

yylast │ yylast_addition │ commit │ subject
────────┼─────────────────┼────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
106051 │ 1883 │ 92bf7e2d02 │ Provide the OR REPLACE option for CREATE TRIGGER.
105325 │ 1869 │ 06a7c3154f │ Allow most keywords to be used as column labels without requiring AS.
104395 │ 1816 │ 45b9805706 │ Allow CURRENT_ROLE where CURRENT_USER is accepted
107537 │ 1139 │ a4d75c86bf │ Extended statistics on expressions
105410 │ 1067 │ b5913f6120 │ Refactor CLUSTER and REINDEX grammar to use DefElem for option lists
106007 │ 965 │ 3696a600e2 │ SEARCH and CYCLE clauses
106864 │ 733 │ be45be9c33 │ Implement GROUP BY DISTINCT
105886 │ 609 │ 844fe9f159 │ Add the ability for the core grammar to have more than one parse target.
108400 │ 571 │ ec48314708 │ Revert per-index collation version tracking feature.
108939 │ 539 │ e6241d8e03 │ Rethink definition of pg_attribute.attcompression.

but we also have these:

105521 │ -530 │ 926fa801ac │ Remove undocumented IS [NOT] OF syntax.
104202 │ -640 │ c4325cefba │ Fold AlterForeignTableStmt into AlterTableStmt
104168 │ -718 │ 40c24bfef9 │ Improve our ability to regurgitate SQL-syntax function calls.
108111 │ -828 │ e56bce5d43 │ Reconsider the handling of procedure OUT parameters.
106398 │ -834 │ 71f4c8c6f7 │ ALTER TABLE ... DETACH PARTITION ... CONCURRENTLY
104402 │ -923 │ 2453ea1422 │ Support for OUT parameters in procedures
103456 │ -939 │ 1ed6b89563 │ Remove support for postfix (right-unary) operators.
104343 │ -1178 │ 873ea9ee69 │ Refactor parsing rules for option lists of EXPLAIN, VACUUM and ANALYZE
102784 │ -1417 │ 8f5b596744 │ Refactor AlterExtensionContentsStmt grammar
(59 filas)

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