Re: SQL-Invoked Procedures for 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gavin Sherry
Subject Re: SQL-Invoked Procedures for 8.1
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.58.0410081518580.23795@linuxworld.com.au
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In response to Re: SQL-Invoked Procedures for 8.1  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> > I'll give you an example why not:
>
> > CALL some_sp ( user IS 19, session IS NULL );
>
> > However, Tom, couldn't AS confuse the parser when used to call a named
> > function in a SELECT clause?
>
> I don't think so.  We are talking about
>
>     SELECT f(42 AS a, col1 AS b) AS collabel FROM ...
>
> Certainly there's no ambiguity to a person in this: param name AS's are
> inside parens, collabel AS's are not.  I believe that bison would deal
> with this handily ... but I have to admit I've not actually tried to
> make the grammar changes for it.

A quick hack on bison confirms that this doesn't generate any conflicts
(as long as you don't add a_expr AS a_expr to a_expr :-)).

Gavin


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