Re: WIP: hooking parser - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: WIP: hooking parser
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In response to Re: WIP: hooking parser  (Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>)
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Next sample of parser hook using:

attachment contains module that transform every empty string to null.
I am not sure, if this behave is exactly compatible with Oracle, but
for first iteration it is good.

postgres=# select length('') is null;
 ?column?
----------
 t
(1 row)

I thing, so this should be used for emulation of some constructors too.

Regards
Pavel Stehule


2009/2/13 Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>
>> And on top of that, decode() is supposed to do short-circuit evaluation of
>> the arguments.
>
> Then the only solution is to hack it right into the parser.
>
> There is an existing decode() function however ...
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