Re: [BUGS] COPY .... (FORMAT binary) syntax doesn't work

On 26 May 2013 17:10, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:

> More readable would be to invent an intermediate nonterminal falling
> between ColId and ColLabel, whose expansion would be "IDENT |
> unreserved_keyword | col_name_keyword | type_func_name_keyword", and
> then replace ColId_or_Sconst with whatever-we-call-that_or_Sconst.
> Any thoughts about a name for that new nonterminal?

Do you think complicating the parser in that way is worth the trouble
for this case? Could that slow down parsing?

We don't actually have to fix it; clearly not too many people are
bothered, since no complaints in 3 years. Documenting 'binary' seems
better.

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