Re: duckdb has extensible parser
Greg Burd <greg@burd.me>
From: "Greg Burd" <greg@burd.me>
To: "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-05-19T00:12:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, May 13, 2026, at 9:25 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote: > Hi > > today I found an article about preparing a new parser for duckdb. > > I remember here was a discussion about it, so this can be an idea on how to do it. > > https://duckdb.org/2024/11/22/runtime-extensible-parsers I've been working on Lime https://codeberg.org/gregburd/lime and a replacement of flex and bison in Postgres using Lime https://github.com/gburd/postgres/tree/lime which isn't yet stable or ready but the intention is/was to use a new parser that has the ability to be extended (changed) at runtime so that our extension authors can do some more interesting tricks. Not a finished branch, but something to talk about for sure. > Regards > > Pavel best. -greg