I wouldn't mind having a stab at this if you can expand on the 'magic' required.
(I'm interested because I might be able to use the same logic to roll a third version of the .y for Aubit4GL outside of the Postgresql tree) On Wednesday 04 June 2008 16:11:49 Michael Meskes wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:21:19AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Ugh :-(. > > This is why I didn't want to go that route. :-) > > > I have not spent much time looking at the ecpg grammar, so feel free to > > laugh this off, but I had the impression that all the rules derived from > > the backend grammar have boilerplate action sections (ie, just join the > > This is true. > > > strings together). So I was hoping that we could leave the backend's > > .y file more or less as-is, and write a perl script that would go > > through it and replace each { ... } action with a suitable cat_str call, > > which it could build on-the-fly by counting the number of rule tokens. > > There is some small magic to know when to have blanks in between and > when not, but that should be doable. > > > Then combine that output with the ecpg-specific rules taken from a > > separate source file. Obviously there would have to be a few small > > This might work. Anyone with good perl knowledge interested? > > Michael > > -- > Michael Meskes > Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) > ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Go VfL Borussia! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! -- Mike Aubury http://www.aubit.com/ Aubit Computing Ltd is registered in England and Wales, Number: 3112827 Registered Address : Clayton House,59 Piccadilly,Manchester,M1 2AQ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers