Re: benchmarking Flex practices

On 07/24/19 03:45, John Naylor wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 3:14 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> However, my second reaction was that maybe you were on to something
>> upthread when you speculated about postponing de-escaping of
>> Unicode literals into the grammar.  If we did it like that then

Wow, yay. I hadn't been following this thread, but I had just recently
looked over my own earlier musings [1] and started thinking "no, it would
be outlandish to ask the lexer to return utf-8 always ... but what about
postponing the de-escaping of Unicode literals into the grammar?" and
had started to think about when I might have a chance to try making a
patch.

With the de-escaping postponed, I think we'd be able to move beyond the
current odd situation where Unicode escapes can't describe non-ascii
characters, in exactly and only the cases where you need them to.

-Chap


[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6688474e-7c28-b352-bcec-ea0ef59d7a1a%40anastigmatix.net