Re: Call for objections: revision of keyword classification

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Call for objections: revision of keyword classification
Date: 2001-11-09 19:09:31
Message-ID: 21198.1005332971@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> A validation script is a good intermediate idea,

IMHO a validation script would be *far* harder than the alternative
I'm proposing, because it'd have to parse and interpret gram.y and
keyword.c. Building a correct-by-construction set of keyword lists
seems much easier than checking their rather messy representation
in those files.

regards, tom lane

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