On 2010-10-04 5:31 PM +0300, Tom Lane wrote:
> Marko Tiikkaja<marko.tiikkaja@cs.helsinki.fi> writes:
>> Nope. I think I grepped contrib/ at some point and none of those were
>> using pg_parse_and_rewrite() so this is all just speculation. And yes,
>> it's not really part of any stable API but breaking third party modules
>> needlessly is not something I want to do. However, in this case there
>> is no way to avoid breaking them.
>
> In the particular case at hand here, I rather wonder why SQL functions
> are depending on postgres.c at all. It might be better to just
> duplicate a bit of code to make them independent. pg_parse_and_rewrite
> would then be dead code and could be deleted.
I'm confused. Even if we get rid of pg_parse_and_rewrite, SQL functions
need pg_parse_query and pg_analyze_and_rewrite from postgres.c. You're
not suggesting duplicating the code in those two, are you?
Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja