Re: Updatable views/with check option parsing

[Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>]

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> Incidently, IIRC the default behaviour on conflict is a shift anyway,
> so that what the patch already does anyway.
>
> So we get:
>
> CREATE VIEW foo AS SELECT expr :: TIME WITH TIME ZONE        <-- OK
> CREATE VIEW foo AS SELECT expr :: TIME WITH CHECK OPTION     <-- > parse error
> CREATE VIEW foo AS SELECT (expr :: TIME) WITH CHECK OPTION   <-- OK

Yes, that's really the fundamental problem if you let shift/reduce
conflicts stand: the parser will behave weirdly in the conflict cases.

There is a seemingly little known option in bison named %glr-parser,
which when turned on parses all of theses cases correctly.  Maybe that
is worth considering.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
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