postgresql/src/backend/parser
Tom Lane 11324e408f Remove vestigial grammar support for CHARACTER ... CHARACTER SET option.
The SQL standard says that you should be able to write "CHARACTER SET foo"
as part of the declaration of a char-type column.  We don't implement that,
but a rough form of support has existed in gram.y since commit f10b63923.
That's now sat there for nigh 20 years without anyone fleshing it out ---
and even if someone did, the contemplated approach of having separate data
type name(s) for every character set certainly isn't what we'd do today.
Let's just remove the grammar production; if anyone is ever motivated to
work on this, reinventing the grammar support is a trivial fraction of
what they'd have to do.  And we've never documented anything about
supporting such a clause.

Per gripe from Neha Khatri.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFO0U+-iOS5oYN5v3SBuZvfhPUTRrkDFEx8w7H17B07Rwg3YUA@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-07 10:42:18 -05:00
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.gitignore Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:04 +02:00
analyze.c Make more use of castNode() 2017-02-21 11:59:09 -05:00
check_keywords.pl Update copyright via script for 2017 2017-01-03 13:48:53 -05:00
gram.y Remove vestigial grammar support for CHARACTER ... CHARACTER SET option. 2017-03-07 10:42:18 -05:00
Makefile Suppress "unused variable" warnings with older versions of flex. 2017-02-19 13:04:30 -05:00
parse_agg.c Remove vestigial resolveUnknown arguments from transformSortClause etc. 2017-01-25 09:35:00 -05:00
parse_clause.c Make tablesample work with partitioned tables. 2017-02-24 12:23:28 +05:30
parse_coerce.c Make messages mentioning type names more uniform 2017-01-18 16:08:20 -03:00
parse_collate.c Make more use of castNode() 2017-02-21 11:59:09 -05:00
parse_cte.c Change unknown-type literals to type text in SELECT and RETURNING lists. 2017-01-25 09:17:24 -05:00
parse_expr.c Make more use of castNode() 2017-02-21 11:59:09 -05:00
parse_func.c Replace LookupFuncNameTypeNames() with LookupFuncWithArgs() 2017-03-06 13:31:47 -05:00
parse_node.c Make more use of castNode() 2017-02-21 11:59:09 -05:00
parse_oper.c Replace LookupFuncNameTypeNames() with LookupFuncWithArgs() 2017-03-06 13:31:47 -05:00
parse_param.c Update copyright via script for 2017 2017-01-03 13:48:53 -05:00
parse_relation.c Make more use of castNode() 2017-02-21 11:59:09 -05:00
parse_target.c Change unknown-type literals to type text in SELECT and RETURNING lists. 2017-01-25 09:17:24 -05:00
parse_type.c Make more use of castNode() 2017-02-21 11:59:09 -05:00
parse_utilcmd.c Remove objname/objargs split for referring to objects 2017-03-06 13:31:47 -05:00
parser.c Change representation of statement lists, and add statement location info. 2017-01-14 16:02:35 -05:00
README Move keywords.c/kwlookup.c into src/common/. 2016-03-23 20:22:08 -04:00
scan.l Update copyright via script for 2017 2017-01-03 13:48:53 -05:00
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src/backend/parser/README

Parser
======

This directory does more than tokenize and parse SQL queries.  It also
creates Query structures for the various complex queries that are passed
to the optimizer and then executor.

parser.c	things start here
scan.l		break query into tokens
scansup.c	handle escapes in input strings
gram.y		parse the tokens and produce a "raw" parse tree
analyze.c	top level of parse analysis for optimizable queries
parse_agg.c	handle aggregates, like SUM(col1),  AVG(col2), ...
parse_clause.c	handle clauses like WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, ...
parse_coerce.c	handle coercing expressions to different data types
parse_collate.c	assign collation information in completed expressions
parse_cte.c	handle Common Table Expressions (WITH clauses)
parse_expr.c	handle expressions like col, col + 3, x = 3 or x = 4
parse_func.c	handle functions, table.column and column identifiers
parse_node.c	create nodes for various structures
parse_oper.c	handle operators in expressions
parse_param.c	handle Params (for the cases used in the core backend)
parse_relation.c support routines for tables and column handling
parse_target.c	handle the result list of the query
parse_type.c	support routines for data type handling
parse_utilcmd.c	parse analysis for utility commands (done at execution time)

See also src/common/keywords.c, which contains the table of standard
keywords and the keyword lookup function.  We separated that out because
various frontend code wants to use it too.