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@xxxxxx> > To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > -- Richard Troy, Chief Scientist Science Tools Corporation 510-924-1363 or 202-747-1263 rtroy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://ScienceTools.com/
