On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:38 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 4/29/2016 12:56 PM, John McKown wrote: > > I suspect this would be painful for the parser, unless you also enforced >> that all SQL keywords were in a specific case (all lower would be the >> minimal impact to the code). otherwise the parser would have to lower() >> every token to check to see if its a keyword, but if not, revert it to its >> original case. >> > > ​ Why? PostgreSQL is written in C. So use strncasecmp() instead of > strncmp() or strcasecmp() instead of strcmp() to test for a token. > > > are those the APIs the parser uses? > ​Ah. Good point. I ASSuMEd that what any C language program would use. IIRC, PostgreSQL uses Bison and Flex to generate the parsing grammars, and I don't know what those products output.​ > > > -- > john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz > > -- The unfacts, did we have them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude. Maranatha! <>< John McKown
