Re: Foreign keys for non-default datatypes

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, CG <cgg007@yahoo.com>
Date: 2006-03-03T20:04:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Stephan Szabo wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >>The reason I'm hesitant to add a bunch more cross-type operators is
> >>mainly that we have too darn many operators named "=" already.  I've
> >>seen in recent profiling tests that it's taking the parser a noticeable
> >>amount of time to decide which one is meant. 
> 
> Speaking of parsers, did anyone else notice that gcc in its latest 
> release has ripped out the bison based parser for C and Objective-C in 
> favor of a hand cut RD parser?

Yeah, I did.  I wonder what sort of effort they went to write the new
parser.

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