pá 15. 12. 2023 v 15:50 odesílatel Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> napsal:
>
> Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> writes:
> > On Fri, 2023-12-15 at 13:21 +0100, Josef Šimánek wrote:
> >> Inspired by Simon Riggs' keynote talk at PGCounf.eu 2023 sharing list
> >> of ideas for PostgreSQL
> >> (https://riggs.business/blog/f/postgresql-todo-2023), I have crafted a
> >> quick patch to do SQL syntax validation.
> >>
> >> What do you think?
>
> > I like the idea. But what will happen if the SQL statement references
> > tables or other objects, since we have no database?
>
> This seems like a fairly useless wart to me.
this hurts :'(
>
> In the big picture a command line switch in the postgres executable
> doesn't feel like the right place for this. There's no good reason
> to assume that the server executable will be installed where you want
> this capability; not to mention the possibility of version skew
> between that executable and whatever installation you're actually
> running on.
>
> Another thing I don't like is that this exposes to the user what ought
> to be purely an implementation detail, namely the division of labor
> between gram.y (raw_parser()) and the rest of the parser. There are
> checks that a user would probably see as "syntax checks" that don't
> happen in gram.y, and conversely there are some things we reject there
> that seem more like semantic than syntax issues.
>
> regards, tom lane