Re: Call for objections: revision of keyword classification - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Call for objections: revision of keyword classification
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Msg-id 21198.1005332971@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Call for objections: revision of keyword classification  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Call for objections: revision of keyword classification  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> A validation script is a good intermediate idea,

IMHO a validation script would be *far* harder than the alternative
I'm proposing, because it'd have to parse and interpret gram.y and
keyword.c.  Building a correct-by-construction set of keyword lists
seems much easier than checking their rather messy representation
in those files.

            regards, tom lane

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