From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu (Thomas G(dot) Lockhart) |
Cc: | hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, mdalphin(at)sanger(dot)otago(dot)ac(dot)nz |
Subject: | Re: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: int2 negative numbers not parsed correctly |
Date: | 1998-04-01 16:02:47 |
Message-ID: | 199804011602.LAA19457@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > I am confused. As I can tell, these are coming in as null_expr - 1.
>
> What is "null_expr - 1"? I think that is the same thing; a node with a
> subtraction operator and the left side set to null and the right side
> set to a constant node. That's what I meant by the unary minus on a
> constant.
>
> > Why can't we do a check in gram.y,...
>
> Well we maybe can, but it sure is ugly. This will be spread around a
> bunch of places (everywhere there is a unary minus allowed). I already
> did the wrong thing and brute-forced something similar into the CREATE
> SEQUENCE code in gram.y. Isolating it in transform_expr() or somewhere
> like that would be much cleaner.
>
But isn't it is just one line in gram.y. That is where I was seeing it
happen.
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