Re: Summer of Code idea

Jesper Pedersen wrote:

> I have been thinking about this for a while and now that Google Summer of Code
> is coming I thought I would share this idea.
> 
> The GCC people have traded their bison/flex parser with a hand written
> recursive-descent parser for a nice speed up.
> 
> So it would be interesting to see if PostgreSQL would benefit from the same
> 'switch'.

We talked about it when GCC announced their switch.  The conclusion was
that our grammar is still too much a moving target, so it would be too
difficult to mantain such a grammar.

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