Re: Two small patches for the isolationtester lexer

> On 22 Feb 2018, at 05:10, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> I wrote;
>> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
>>> I also (again) forgot about the # comments not being allowed inside setup and
>>> teardown blocks, so patch 0002 proposes adding support for these as the
>>> documentation implies.
>
>> Hmm, not sure this is a good idea.  # is a valid SQL operator name, so
>> doing this would create some risk of breaking legal queries.
>
> Actually, looking closer, this would also trigger on '#' used inside a
> SQL literal, which seems to move the problem cases into the "pretty
> likely" category instead of the "far-fetched" one.  So I'd only be OK
> with it if we made the lexer smart enough to distinguish inside-a-SQL-
> literal from not.  That might be a good thing anyway, since it would
> allow us to not choke on literals containing '}', but it'd be a great
> deal more work.  You might be able to steal code from the psql lexer
> though.

I agree, patch 0002 was broken and the correct fix is a much bigger project -
one too big for me to tackle right now (but hopefully at some point in the near
future).  Thanks for the review of it though!

cheers ./daniel