On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Gregory Smith <gregsmithpg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/24/14, 10:10 PM, Robert Haas wrote: >> I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. I implemented this >> today in about three hours. > > I think you're greatly understating your own efficiency at shift/reducing > parser mountains down to molehills. Fabien even guessed the LOC size of the > resulting patch with less than a 9% error. That's some top notch software > metrics and development work there boys; kudos all around.
Well, I blame Heikki. I used to think that this kind of thing was really hard, and a few years ago I might have had Fabien's reaction, but then I saw Heikki bust out a shift/reduce parser for the isolation tester in no time, so I decided it must not be that hard. So it proved. I copied all that hard parts from other parts of the PostgreSQL code base - my references were the isolation tester lexer and parser, the contrib/seg parser, and the main parser. I couldn't do it that fast from scratch, not even close, but adapting something that's already known to work is much easier. > Let's get this operator support whipped into shape, then we can add the 2 to > 3 versions of the modulo operator needed to make the major use cases work. > (There was never going to be just one hacked in with a quick patch that > satisfied the multiple ways you can do this) I don't think adding more versions of the modulo operator is the right way forward: I think we should add ? : for conditionals and some kind of function thing like abs(x). Or maybe come up with a more sophisticated rehashing algorithm and expose that directly as hash(x). That's my whole reason for not wanting to adopt Fabien's approach in the first place: I was cool with exposing C's modulo operator, but any other modulo semantics seem like they should be built up from general-purpose primitives. Anyway, I think the first thing is that somebody needs to spend some time testing, polishing, and documenting this patch, before we start adding to it. I'm hoping someone else will volunteer - other tasks beckon. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
