Re: pure parsers and reentrant scanners

On 17.12.24 01:46, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> On 12/16/24 8:39 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I'll leave it at this for now and wait for some reviews.
>
> I really like this work since it makes the code cleaner to read on top
> of paving the way for threading.
>
> Reviewed the patches and found a couple of issues.
>
> - Shouldn't yyext in syncrep_scanner_init() be allocated on the heap? Or
> at least on the stack but by the caller?

I think it's correct the way it is. It's only a temporary space for the
scanner, so we can allocate it in the innermost scope.

> - I think you have flipped the parameters of replication_yyerror(), see
> attached fixup patch.

Good catch. There was also a similar issue with syncrep_yyerror().

> - Some white space issues fixed in an attached fixup patch.

committed

> - Also fixed the static remaining variables in the replication parser in
> an attached patch.

Thanks, I'll take a look at that.

> - There seems to be a lot left to do to make the plpgsql scanner
> actually re-entrant so I do not think it would makes sense to commit the
> patch which sets the re-entrant option before that is done.

Ok, we can hold that one back until the full stack including the parser
is done.