Re: Yacc / Bison difficulties

> 
> I was trying to make a minor change today to the gram.y file to make
> PostgreSQL recognize "DOUBLE" as a data type the way DB2 does.  I ran into
> reduce / reduce conflicts using both of the methods I tried.  
> 
> Having fought extensively with  Bison before on a SQL oriented language
> translation project, I am amazed that you were able to get a grammar as
> complex as PostgreSQL to work without major difficulty.
> 
> I was wondering about what the sense of the list would be to someday accepting
> a rewrite using a hand-coded LL(k) recursive descent parser.  Anyone?

Interesting.  What advantages would there be?

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