Re: Re: UNION JOIN vs UNION SELECT

From: Andrew Selle <aselle(at)upl(dot)cs(dot)wisc(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: UNION JOIN vs UNION SELECT
Date: 2000-08-29 03:09:45
Message-ID: 20000828220945.A8170@upl.cs.wisc.edu
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> >
> > That's exactly the solution I'm proposing. However, it's pretty painful
> > to make the lexer do it directly (consider intervening comments, for
> > example)
>
> Comments are a pain in the parser. What if something prior to the lexer
> filtered out comments before either the lexer or parser could see them?
> Would it be as easy as s/--.*// before the lexer?

It probably wouldn't be that simple, but I do think that the solution
is sound. Such a design is recommended by the Dragon book and has
the benefit of simplifying both the lexer and the parser.

-Andy

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