Re: CommitFest 2009-09, two weeks on

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at>
Cc: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <hs@cybertec.at>, Dan Colish <dan@unencrypted.org>
Date: 2009-10-01T15:02:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Boszormenyi Zoltan escribió:

> First, Tom Lane suggested to unify core and ecpg FETCH
> syntaxes so both will accept optional FROM/IN, which I did.
> SQLDA support adds new FETCH forms (Informix-specific
> ones) so naturally these patches clash. There's no simple way
> to make they separately applicable. With the first version,
> the same technical dependency were also there, because of
> the (already explained) grammar problem, I got 2 shift/reduce
> problems in the FETCH/MOVE stmts unless I de-factorized
> FORWARD and BACKWARD out of fetch_direction.
> The new FETCH forms with SQLDA touched the same areas
> in ecpg.addon.

Probably the parts that touch the core grammar can be reviewed and
applied separately.

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