Re: SQL-standard function body

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 4:52 PM Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Your patch filters out empty statements at the parse transformation
> phase, so they are no longer present when you dump the body back out.
> So your edits in the test expected files don't fit.

Oh, somehow the tests aren't failing here, I'm not sure what I did wrong.

> I suggest we just prohibit empty statements at the parse stage. I don't
> see a strong reason to allow them, and if we wanted to, we'd have to do
> more work, e.g., in ruleutils.c to print them back out correctly.

I always thought extraneous semicolons were tokens to be ignored,
which happens to be internally implemented as empty statements, so
deparsing them is not required, similar to deparsing extraneous
whitespaces. If the spec says otherwise then I agree it's not worth
implementing, but otherwise I'm not sure if it's really helpful to
error out.