Re: Proposal: syntax of operation with tsearch's configuration

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 03:53:35PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Having the supporting code in core does not make much of a difference
> > otherwise from having it in contrib, does it?
>
> Given the nonextensibility of gram.y and keywords.c, it has to be in
> core to even think about having special syntax :-(

Has anyone ever heard of extensible grammers? Just thinking wildly, you
could decree that commands beginning with @ are extensions and are parsed
by the module listed next. Then your command set becomes:

@tsearch CREATE PARSER ....

Then contrib modules can add their own parser. You'd have the overhead
of multiple lex/yacc parsers, but you wouldn't have to change the main
parser for every extension.

Has anyone ever heard of something like this?

Have a nice day,
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