Ühel kenal päeval, K, 2006-05-24 kell 13:13, kirjutas Peter Eisentraut:
> I have spent some time figuring out how to resolve the parsing conflicts in
> Bernd Helmle's updatable views patch. The problem has now been reduced to
> specifically this situation:
>
> CREATE VIEW foo AS SELECT expr :: TIME . WITH
>
> (where expr is a_expr or b_expr and TIME could also be TIMESTAMP or TIME(x) or
> TIMESTAMP(x)).
>
> The continuation here could be WITH TIME ZONE (calling for a shift) or WITH
> CHECK OPTION (calling for a reduce).
>
> All the usual ideas about unfolding the rules or making keywords more reserved
> don't work (why should they). A one-token lookahead simply can't parse this.
Can't we teach tokenized a new token "WITH TIME ZONE" ?
> I have had some ideas about trying to play around with the precedence rules --
> giving WITH TIME ZONE a higher precedence than WITH CHECK OPTION -- but I
> have no experience with that and I am apparently not doing it right, if that
> is supposed to work at all.
>
> If we can't get that to work, it seems that we are out of options unless we
> want to just accept the conflicts.
>
> How should we go about this, and what should Bernd do with his patch, which,
> as I understand it, has been held up for quite a while simply because he is
> concerned about this issue?
>
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