Re: Patch for removal of RULE bracket use - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Bruce,

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> This patch completes the following TODO item:
> 
>     * Remove brackets as multi-statement rule grouping, must use parens
> 
> One question I have is whether this change is needed:
>     
>       %left         '.'
>     - %left         '[' ']'
>       %left         '(' ')'

It is unncessary to remove this. Square brackets are used elsewhere in the
grammar (arrays, opt_indirection). It is possible that the grammar
requires left to right order of precidence for these.

Gavin