Jesper Pedersen wrote: > I have been thinking about this for a while and now that Google Summer of Code > is coming I thought I would share this idea. > > The GCC people have traded their bison/flex parser with a hand written > recursive-descent parser for a nice speed up. > > So it would be interesting to see if PostgreSQL would benefit from the same > 'switch'.
We talked about it when GCC announced their switch. The conclusion was that our grammar is still too much a moving target, so it would be too difficult to mantain such a grammar. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
