On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:05:42PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Jim Nasby's message of dom jul 17 16:31:45 -0400 2011: > > > On a somewhat related note, I'd also really like to have the > > ability to parse things like .sql files externally, to do things > > like LINT checking. > > We talked about this during PGCon. The idea that seemed to have > consensues there was to export the parser similarly to how we build > the ecpg parser, that is, a set of perl scripts which take our > gram.y as input and modify it to emit something different.
That solves the non-customized part of the problem, which is worth solving. A complete parser for a given DB would need catalog access, i.e. a live connection to that DB. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
