Re: Keyword list sanity check

I had previously considered adding an assertion in the backend to
check they're sorted properly. That would be less formatting dependent
and would be only a couple lines of C.

I don't think we can do that with the gram.y check though.

--
Greg

On 28 Apr 2009, at 09:33, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com
> wrote:

> I wrote a little perl script to perform a basic sanity check to
> keywords in gram.y and kwlist.h. It checks that all lists are in
> alphabetical order, all keywords present in gram.y are listed in
> kwlist.h in the right category, and conversely that all keywords
> listed in kwlist.h are listed in gram.y.
>
> It found one minor issue already:
>
> $ perl src/tools/check_keywords.pl
> 'SCHEMA' after 'SERVER' in unreserved_keyword list is misplaced
>
> SERVER is not in the right place in gram.y, it should go between
> SERIALIZABLE and SERVER. I'll fix that.
>
> I'll put this into src/tools. It's heavily dependent on the format
> of the lists in gram.y and kwlist.h but if it bitrots due to changes
> in those files, we can either fix it or just remove it if it's not
> deemed useful anymore.
>
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