On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:01:17PM +0530, Ravindra Jaju wrote: > I tried peeking around a bit, and tried pulling out src/backend/parser - but > that depends on other parts of the code, making it a bit non-trivial. Plus, > any changes in the base code upstream would not be available to this > pulled-out application over time. Looking further, I noticed on my Fedora > distribution that the pg devel package has a parser/parser.h file which > exposes the function 'raw_parser' which is the function that seemed most > interesting to me while exploring the code too. Note that that's a *backend* header file. > I have some questions: > 1] is 'raw_parser' the right function to parse an SQL statement (for mainly > structural/syntactic analysis)? I beleive it's the function used y postgres internally, not sure though. > 2] If yes, I found that none of the shared library files expose this > function - I could not link a simple C program with this function > successfully. (I tried all the .so files related to postgres! :-() It's inside the server, it's not in a seperate library. To use it you need to be inside the server. > 3] If not, what would be a better mechanism to re-use all the work already > done in postgres for SQL analysis? No idea. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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