Rule/SELECT

I see now that this has been applied.  Thanks for pointing it out.RuleActionStmt:    SelectStmt        | InsertStmt
  | UpdateStmt        | DeleteStmt        | NotifyStmt        ;
 

> I suggest that the CREATE RULE syntax be relaxed so that
> it is legal to have a list of SELECT commands in a rule.
> 
> I'll argue that:
>   1) The change is simple (2 lines in gram.y).  Diff is
> attached.
>   2) It breaks nothing (more things become legal)
>   3) It makes the parser agree with the published syntax,
>      which currently makes no distinction about SELECT
> commands.
>   4) It makes the language more "regular" in that SELECT
>      commands are no longer special.:
> 
> Diff is an attachment because of line-wrapping.  I'm new
> here
> so I don't know if this works.  But as I said it's only 2
> lines.
> 
> ++ kevin 
> 
> 
> 
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> --- gram.y.orig    Thu May 25 15:42:17 2000
> +++ gram.y    Thu Oct 19 14:34:47 2000
> @@ -2585,7 +2585,6 @@
>          ;
>  
>  RuleActionList:  NOTHING                { $$ = NIL; }
> -        | SelectStmt                    { $$ = lcons($1, NIL); }
>          | RuleActionStmt                { $$ = lcons($1, NIL); }
>          | '[' RuleActionMulti ']'        { $$ = $2; }
>          | '(' RuleActionMulti ')'        { $$ = $2; } 
> @@ -2607,6 +2606,7 @@
>          ;
>  
>  RuleActionStmt:    InsertStmt
> +        | SelectStmt
>          | UpdateStmt
>          | DeleteStmt
>          | NotifyStmt


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