Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer
Date: 2009-04-14 22:29:38
Message-ID: 22440.1239748178@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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.

regards, tom lane

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