On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> So do we want to keep that "AND" in the 9.3beta and 9.4 documentation?
>
> The grammar as in gram.y still allows the AND form, and I think we're
> used to maintain documentation that matches the code here. So I think it
> makes sense to remove both capabilities as we failed to deliver any
> other filter.
>
> But if we wanted to clean that, what about having the grammar check for
> the only one item we support rather than waiting until into
> CreateEventTrigger() to ereport a syntax error?
I have found that it's generally better to recognize such errors in
the post-parse phase rather than during parsing. When you start
adding more options, that tends to quickly become the only workable
option anyway.
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