Re: [SQL] WHERE parent IN (0,-1)

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Drew Whittle <drew(at)albatross(dot)co(dot)nz>, pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] WHERE parent IN (0,-1)
Date: 1999-07-28 14:47:43
Message-ID: 379F180F.F96796FB@alumni.caltech.edu
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> >> I can get around the problem (I think) by using WHERE parent IN
> >> (0,'-1').
> It's a grammar problem. in_expr_nodes and not_in_expr_nodes expect
> the elements of the IN-list to be AexprConst ... I wonder why not
> a_expr instead? Might be a reduce conflict, but I bet we could at
> least use b_expr. Thomas, any comments?

The immediate problem is with handling the minus sign; I should be
able to fix that (I had changed the handling of minus signs to get
better behavior with cases like "- 1" and "2-1" in other contexts). My
recollection is that SQL92 allows only lists of constants, and there
may have been shift/reduce problems with doing more than that. Will
poke at it in between getting Bruce's man pages going ;)

- Thomas

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