Re: Modifying SQL parser with extensions?

Matthias,

what you want might be a type of collation sequence. You should be able to
code that within Postgres, I'd think, but I wouldn't think that passing
arguments as comments is appropriate.

RT

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Matthias Lüdtke wrote:

> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:26:30 +0100
> From: Matthias Lüdtke <matthias-luedtke@gmx.de>
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Modifying SQL parser with extensions?
>
>
> Richard Troy wrote:
> > Our package lets you pass individual statements or entire files full
> > of SQL with embeded comments as it's not that uncommon among SQL
> > dialects - they're just stripped out before getting to the engine, as
> > Alvaro suggested.
>
> Unfortunately I need the information in the statement to sort the result
> set in a certain way later on. Sorry, I should have mentioned that from
> the beginning.
>
> This whole thing I want to implement was already written as a proxy JDBC
> driver - from parser to result sorter - and works quite fine. I am now
> investigating if it's possible to implement it directly in an RDBMS,
> i.e. PostgreSQL.
>
> Regards,
> Matthias
>
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