Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I see that psql/mainloop.c contains this comment:
* FIXME: rewrite this whole thing with flex
Is now the time to do that?
If you feel like giving it a shot, ain't nobody gonna stand in your way.
MainLoop() is well past the level of
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I see that psql/mainloop.c contains this comment:
> * FIXME: rewrite this whole thing with flex
> Is now the time to do that?
If you feel like giving it a shot, ain't nobody gonna stand in your way.
MainLoop() is well past the level of unmaintainabilit
Andreas Pflug wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
I think the minimum amount of additional work that has to be done before
we can apply it is to teach psql's input parser about $QUOTE$ ---
without that, the feature is not only useless but counterproductive.
IMHO it's not useless. pgAdmin already knows that
Tom Lane wrote:
I think the minimum amount of additional work that has to be done before
we can apply it is to teach psql's input parser about $QUOTE$ ---
without that, the feature is not only useless but counterproductive.
IMHO it's not useless. pgAdmin already knows that quoting scheme... not
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BTW, what happened to the $QUOTE$ quoting idea? Was it applied, or
> even developed?
I'd like to see it done for 7.5, but haven't personally had time to go
further than the proof-of-concept backend patch I posted awhile ago.
I think the minimum amount
Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:17:11AM -0800, David Fetter wrote:
>
> [Moved to hackers -- this belongs to -docs anyway, doesn't it?]
>
> > With all due respect, Peter, it is only implicit in the docs, and that
> > is not always good enough. An explicit example will help, as
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> BTW, what happened to the $QUOTE$ quoting idea? Was it applied, or
> even developed?
I believe it's still on the to-do list, but was pushed off until 7.5 or
whenever it gets done.
Jon
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:17:11AM -0800, David Fetter wrote:
[Moved to hackers -- this belongs to -docs anyway, doesn't it?]
> With all due respect, Peter, it is only implicit in the docs, and that
> is not always good enough. An explicit example will help, as
> PostgreSQL's quoting system woul
