Re: Parser extensions (maybe for 10?)

<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]<b> <span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Arcadiy Ivanov<br
/><br/></span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.25pt"><font color="black" face="Verdana" size="3"><span
lang="EN-US"style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Currently the parser and lexer are fully fixed
atcompile-time and not amenable to the extensions - extensions are only capable of introducing functions etc. <br /><br
/>There is, however, an advantage to being able if not add or alter complete statements (which would be nice), but to
atleast augment portions of syntax for existing ones in some places. <br /><br /></span></font><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Isaw the following discussion in the past, but
Ihaven’t read it:</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US"
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">PluggableParser</span></font><p
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/BF2827DCCE55594C8D7A8F7FFD3AB77159878C2A@szxeml521-mbs.china.huawei.com</span></font><p
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’minterested in the pluggable, extensible
parserfor two purposes.  One is to add compatibility for other databases.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
color="#1f497d"face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font
color="#1f497d"face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Theother is for the ODBC (and possibly JDBC)
driver.</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font color="#1f497d" face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">TheODBC/JDBC specs require some unique syntax
constructs,e.g. {? = call funcname(arguments)} to call stored procs/functions.  Currently, the ODBC/JDBC drivers are
forcedto parse and convert SQL statements.  It is ideal for PostgreSQL itself to understand the ODBC/JDBC syntax, and
eliminatethe burdon of parsing statements from the JDBC/ODBC drivers.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">TakayukiTsunakawa</span></font><p
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