Re: Split-up ECPG patches

Tom Lane írta:
> I wrote:
>
>> The fundamental reason that there's a problem here is that ecpg has
>> decided to accept a syntax that the backend doesn't (ie, FETCH with a
>> fetch direction but no FROM/IN). I think that that's basically a bad
>> idea: it's not helpful to users to be inconsistent, and it requires ugly
>> hacks in ecpg, and now ugly hacks in the core grammar as well. We
>> should resolve it either by taking out that syntax from ecpg, or by
>> making the backend accept it too. Not by uglifying the grammars some
>> more in order to keep them inconsistent.
>>
>
> On looking a bit closer at this: I think the reason the core grammar
> requires FROM/IN after fetch_direction is to leave the door open for
> someday generalizing the fetch count to be an expression, not just an
> integer constant. If we made FROM/IN optional, then doing that would
> require some ugly syntax hack or other, such as requiring parentheses
> around nontrivial expressions. So I'd like to see an actual case made
> that there's a strong reason for not requiring FROM/IN in ecpg.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

The only reason is I think was the Informix-compatible mode.
I don't know if it's strong enough, though.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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