Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Along these lines, I don't think Bruce's suggestion of modifications
> to the Postgres gram.y is a good idea, because it causes the Oracle
> parser to add an ongoing cost to the Postgres parser.
Bruce, Tom and I discussed these issues during our time in San Diego last month.
If we want to have both parsers available at runtime we need to replace the YY (case-insensitive) prefix in the
generated files per parser and call the right one from tcop. Now for some flex/bison combo's at least the prefix
switches(to have something different than YY) don't work reliable. There will be some global YY-objects left,
causinglinkage problems. That's why PL/pgSQL's scanner/parser's C-code is run through sed(1).
If Bruce's suggestion of having both parsers in one source with #ifdef, #else, #endif is better than separate
sources depends mainly on how big the differences finally will be. Doesn't really bother me. Maybe we could
start with a combined one and separate later if it turns out that they drift apart too much?
Jan
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