Re: Hook for extensible parsing.

Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jim Mlodgenski <jimmy76@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-09-15T17:44:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 1:23 AM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 12:57 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >
> > > The requirement is that the parser can't leak any
> > > node that the rest of the system doesn't know about, but you can do
> > > what you want inside the parser.
> >
> > That's not what the patch actually does, though.  It only replaces
> > the grammar, not semantic analysis.  So you couldn't associate the
> > (+)-decorated WHERE clause with the appropriate join.  (And no,
> > I will not accept that it's okay to perform catalog lookups in
> > the grammar to get around that.  See comment at the head of gram.y.)
>
> I never said that one should do catalog lookup for that?  What I said
> is that you can do a specific semantic analysis pass in the hook if
> you know that you can have extensible nodes in your parsetree, and you
> can do that with that hook unless I'm missing something?

Ah, now that I think more about it I think that you're talking about
unqualified fields?  I was naively assuming that those wouldn't be
allowed by oracle, but I guess that wishful thinking.