Re: Remove useless associativity/precedence from parsers

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
Cc: Akim Demaille <akim(at)lrde(dot)epita(dot)fr>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Remove useless associativity/precedence from parsers
Date: 2019-06-05 21:54:08
Message-ID: 20190605215408.GA17377@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2019-May-28, Andrew Gierth wrote:

> The main cases I know of are:
>
> 1. RANGE UNBOUNDED PRECEDING - this one is actually a defect in the
> standard SQL grammar, since UNBOUNDED is a non-reserved keyword and so
> it can also appear as a legal <identifier>, and the construct
> RANGE <unsigned value specification> PRECEDING allows <identifier> to
> appear as a <SQL parameter reference>.

Should we report this to the SQL committee?

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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