Re: Parser Cruft in gram.y

From: "McDevitt, Charles" <Charles(dot)McDevitt(at)emc(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)mail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parser Cruft in gram.y
Date: 2012-12-20 23:12:55
Message-ID: 55FBC2C083A01C47BF5E0F1FF7F416BC30DF2DE1@MX103CL02.corp.emc.com
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> Another way of attack along these lines might be to use the %glr-parser
> and then try to cut back on all those redundant rules that were put in
> to avoid conflicts. The number of key words categories and such could
> perhaps also be reduced that way.
>
> Of course, this is mostly speculation.
>
>

The GLR output from Bison is licensed under the GPL (unlike the LALR output).
So using Bison's GLR mode isn't an option.

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