Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer
Date: 2009-04-14 21:06:32
Message-ID: 1239743192.16396.147.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 16:37 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Comments, objections, better ideas?

Please, if you do this, make it optional.

Potentially changing the behaviour of thousands of functions just to fix
a rare bug will not endear us to our users. The bug may be something
that people are relying on in some subtle way, ugly as that sounds.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support

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