Re: [BUGS] casting strings to multidimensional arrays yields strange

Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
>>While looking at it the last day or so, I started to think it might be
>>better to use bison to parse array literals -- or is that a bad idea?
>
> Offhand it doesn't seem like a super-appropriate tool. Once you get
> past the lexical details like quoting, the syntax of array literals
> is not complicated enough to need a bison parser. Also, the issues
> you're facing now like enforcing consistent dimensions are not amenable
> to solution by a context-free grammar --- so you'd still need most of
> the dimension-checking mechanisms.

I'm hesitant to apply the attached this late before the beta without
review, but it seems to take care of the pathological cases I came up
with, doesn't break anything AFAICS, and passes all regression tests. I
guess it can go into beta 2.

Joe