Re: Possible inconsistencies in the parsing of lookup table names and other oddities

2019-07-28 Thread Wietse Venema
Fulvio Scapin: > Thanks for the answer Viktor. > > As I mentioned, mine was an attempt to parse/validate the syntax > externally, so I used the documentation as a guideline and probed with > postmap to see what it would actually accept or not. > > I hope you will forgive me if I disagree on a spe

Re: Possible inconsistencies in the parsing of lookup table names and other oddities

2019-07-27 Thread Fulvio Scapin
Thanks for the answer Viktor. As I mentioned, mine was an attempt to parse/validate the syntax externally, so I used the documentation as a guideline and probed with postmap to see what it would actually accept or not. I hope you will forgive me if I disagree on a specific case where I believe th

Re: Possible inconsistencies in the parsing of lookup table names and other oddities

2019-07-27 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 03:13:01PM +0200, Fulvio Scapin wrote: > But, as I mentioned at the beginning, the inline table is the one leaving > me slightly confused. The syntax is *simple* (minimal features, which is not always the same as: intuitive or "easy to use", but generally not too far off t

Re: Possible inconsistencies in the parsing of lookup table names and other oddities

2019-07-27 Thread Wietse Venema
Fulvio Scapin: > Hello to everyone. > > I've been trying to write a small parser to parse Postfix lookup table > calls for a piece of code I am developing. > > I have taken a look at the source code and then resorted to postmap -q > invocations to empirically test the descriptions at > http://www

Possible inconsistencies in the parsing of lookup table names and other oddities

2019-07-27 Thread Fulvio Scapin
Hello to everyone. I've been trying to write a small parser to parse Postfix lookup table calls for a piece of code I am developing. I have taken a look at the source code and then resorted to postmap -q invocations to empirically test the descriptions at http://www.postfix.org/DATABASE_README.ht