| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Aleksander Alekseev <a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Arcadiy Ivanov <arcadiy(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Parser extensions (maybe for 10?) |
| Date: | 2016-04-19 14:05:33 |
| Message-ID: | 20160419140533.bidgp3hbudp7ktrt@alap3.anarazel.de |
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On 2016-04-19 15:32:07 +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> > As Tom says, we can't easily break it down into multiple co-operating
> > pieces, so lets forget that as unworkable.
>
> I'm sorry but didn't I just demonstrate the opposite?
I doubt it.
> If so it's very
> easy to prove - give a counterexample. As I understand approach I
> described handles cases named by Tom just fine. In fact the idea of
> transforming ASTs (a.k.a metaprogramming) is successfully used by
> programmers for about 50 years now.
>
> (As a side note - I'm not a native English speaker but I believe such
> type of logic is known as "argument from authority".)
And the above is called an ad-hominem.
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