From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: scanner/parser minimization |
Date: | 2013-03-02 15:43:51 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZjTU7xPUcW=WpSVD0fh_Vj3AEn_q5-_V_BB5OEmf+Zmg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I believe however that it's possible to extract an idea of which
> tokens the parser believes it can see next at any given parse state.
> (I've seen code for this somewhere on the net, but am too lazy to go
> searching for it again right now.) So we could imagine a rule along
> the lines of "if IDENT is allowed as a next token, and $KEYWORD is
> not, then return IDENT not the keyword's own token".
>
> This might be unworkable from a speed standpoint, depending on how
> expensive it is to make the determination about allowable next symbols.
> But it seems worth looking into.
Interesting idea. But wouldn't that change the semantics of the
grammar in some places? In particular, keywords would generally
become less-reserved than they are now, but in a context-dependent
way.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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