Re: [PATCHES] dollar quoting

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Parsing is a whole nother ball of wax besides lexing.  I wasn't planning
> > to put *that* into psql.  Remember the only thing psql really wants from
> > this is to detect where end-of-statement is ...
> 
> Forgive my lameness, but I've never truly figured out where parsing ends 
> and lexing begins.  Anyone care to illuminate me on the difference?

The simplistic answer is the lexing breaks a string up into
words/tokens, and parsing matches those tokens against patterns and
fires actions.

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