"Meredith L. Patterson" <m...@osogato.com> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I suspect that it's actually impossible to parse such a thing correctly >> without a full-fledged flex lexer or something of equivalent complexity.
> Is there a reason not to use a full-fledged flex lexer? The point is that that's a pretty large imposition on client code that we don't control or maintain, in order to get a feature that could be gotten in much less dangerous ways that don't impact any code outside PG. > I'd be willing to take a crack at such a thing, but I'm working 80-hour > weeks through the end of June and likely wouldn't be able to put in any > time on it till then. So I definitely couldn't promise anything for 8.4, > but if putting it off till 8.5 works, sign me up. Shall we pass your name on to every package using Postgres, then? This is *not* about code within Postgres. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers