Re: reducing the footprint of ScanKeyword (was Re: Large writablevariables)

On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 11:22:39AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> In my hands, the only part of the low-level parsing code that
> commonly shows up as interesting in profiles is the Bison engine.

Should we be considering others? As I understand it, steps have been
made in this field since yacc was originally designed. Is LALR
actually suitable for languages like SQL, or is it just there for
historical reasons?

Best,
David.
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