Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 16:37 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Comments, objections, better ideas?

> Please, if you do this, make it optional.

I don't think making the plpgsql lexer pluggable is realistic.

> Potentially changing the behaviour of thousands of functions just to fix
> a rare bug will not endear us to our users. The bug may be something
> that people are relying on in some subtle way, ugly as that sounds.

That's why I don't want to change it in a minor release.  In a major
release, however, it's fair game.
        regards, tom lane