Is it possible to use the SQL parser embedded inside the postgres code via some public API? I wish to get a parsed SQL query in any format which lends itself to easy analysis (structural, for example) so as to be able to find similarities between queries.
I tried peeking around a bit, and tried pulling out src/backend/parser - but that depends on other parts of the code, making it a bit non-trivial. Plus, any changes in the base code upstream would not be available to this pulled-out application over time. Looking further, I noticed on my Fedora distribution that the pg devel package has a parser/parser.h file which exposes the function 'raw_parser' which is the function that seemed most interesting to me while exploring the code too.
I have some questions: 1] is 'raw_parser' the right function to parse an SQL statement (for mainly structural/syntactic analysis)? 2] If yes, I found that none of the shared library files expose this function - I could not link a simple C program with this function successfully. (I tried all the .so files related to postgres! :-() 3] If not, what would be a better mechanism to re-use all the work already done in postgres for SQL analysis?
