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Re: [HACKERS] Postgres' lexer

Leon <leon@udmnet.ru> — 1999-08-20T09:36:20Z

Ansley, Michael wrote:
...
> >> And what this stands for:
> >>
> >> {identifier}/{space}*-{number}
> An identifier followed by any number of spaces, and then a minus, or a
> number.  Again, double check this with a reference of some sorts.

Well, I studied flex manpage from top to bottom, and almost everything
in Postgres's lexer makes sense. But these "followed by spaces and a
queer minused number" do not. Can someone tell me what do these 
minused single - digit numbers stand for?

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Leon.
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