Re: [HACKERS] How to...?

From: "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Andrew Martin <martin(at)biochemistry(dot)ucl(dot)ac(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] How to...?
Date: 1998-03-10 04:00:42
Message-ID: 3504BAE9.56CC17A7@alumni.caltech.edu
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> Ack, I fear you are correct...the third field above is 'password',
> which became a reserved word in v6.3...oh man, is this upgrade ever going
> to hurt...my 'db.dump' file is 84Meg...vi just loves it :)

Well, this doesn't solve the general problem, but "password" can be used as a
column name without inducing shift/reduce conflicts. I'll patch the source
tree sometime soon; in the meantime add the obvious source around line 4618
in gram.y:

| PASSWORD { $$ = "password"; }

(add tabs to taste :)

- Tom

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