Re: "AS" by the syntax of table reference.(8.4 proposal)

"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> A possibly bigger problem is that the solution for postfix ops doesn't
> scale nicely: we'd have to list not only IDENT, but *every* can-be-ColId
> keyword, in the %precedence list, which (a) is a maintenance headache,
> (b) causes a conflict because some are already listed there with the
> wrong precedence for this purpose, and (c) is very scary from the
> viewpoint of possibly silently suppressing warnings of future grammar
> ambiguities. I'm not even that happy with giving IDENT a precedence;
> giving precedences to 270 or so currently precedence-less tokens
> just doesn't sound safe.

There are other rules that have a %prec on the rule itself, does that not work
here? *off to read the fine manual now*

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