Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer

On 19 Apr 2009, at 18:28, Greg Stark wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
> <gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl> wrote:
>> Will it also mean, that queries are going to be analyzed deeper ?
>> Ie, afaik I am able now to create plpgsql function, that tries to
>> run query
>> accessing non existent table, or columns.
>> Or, if I rename column/table/relation now, views, etc are getting
>> updated -
>> but not plpgsql functions. Will that change with your patch ?
>
>
> The scanner isn't responsible for anything like this. It just braeks
> the input up into tokens. So its responsible for determining where
> strings start and end and where tble names start and end but doesn't
> actually look up the name anywhere -- that's up to the parser and
> later steps. So no.
ok, thanks.
To be honest, That would be the great feature.