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Re: duckdb has extensible parser

Greg Burd <greg@burd.me> — 2026-05-19T00:12:33Z

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