Re: Foreign keys for non-default datatypes

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, CG <cgg007@yahoo.com>
Date: 2006-03-03T19:58:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Stephan Szabo wrote:

>On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>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?

cheers

andrew