Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: PostgreSQL reference manual - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: PostgreSQL reference manual
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Msg-id 199803250147.UAA23578@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: PostgreSQL reference manual  (Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>)
Responses Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: PostgreSQL reference manual  (dg@illustra.com (David Gould))
Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: PostgreSQL reference manual  (Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>)
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> Stephane Lajeunesse writes:
> > > A create group <groupname> is still missing in the grammar,
> >
> > I'm working on this.. Should have something working around the end of
> > this week (for ALTER USER and CREATE USER).
>
> Please let me use this to tell you all that I would like to get notice of
> each change to gram.y. I am currently modelling ecpg's parser after gram.y
> to get good syntax checking. So I have to make these changes, too.
>

Good idea on telling you of each change, but I also recommend that every
time you update the ecpg grammer, you save a copy the gram.y that you
used to do it, so later when you need to get it back in sync, you can do
a diff on the old and new one to see each change so you don't miss any.

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