Re: Doubt in parser

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com> writes:
> On Feb 16, 2006, at 21:37 , Dhanaraj wrote:
>> currently i looking at the postgres src code. I saw the scanner and  
>> parser implemetations at two different places (src/backend/parser/   
>> and  /src/bakend/bootstrp). Can anybody tell me the purpose of  
>> having two phases?? or will this help to parse the queries at  
>> different levels?

> AFAIK, I don't think the code is exactly the same (though I haven't  
> checked).

No, not even close.  The bootstrap parser reads the "bki" language
defined here:
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/bki.html

"bki" is simple enough that it's hardly even worth using a bison parser
for, but someone did it that way so that's what we've got.

			regards, tom lane