Re: Foreign keys for non-default datatypes

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, CG <cgg007(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Foreign keys for non-default datatypes
Date: 2006-03-03 20:04:52
Message-ID: 20060303200452.GB9051@surnet.cl
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >>The reason I'm hesitant to add a bunch more cross-type operators is
> >>mainly that we have too darn many operators named "=" already. I've
> >>seen in recent profiling tests that it's taking the parser a noticeable
> >>amount of time to decide which one is meant.
>
> Speaking of parsers, did anyone else notice that gcc in its latest
> release has ripped out the bison based parser for C and Objective-C in
> favor of a hand cut RD parser?

Yeah, I did. I wonder what sort of effort they went to write the new
parser.

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