Re: new release

[Vivien Malerba <malerba linuxave net>]

On lun, 03 jui 2000, you wrote:


> > > 3) Related with the XML queries will be the query designer in the front
> > > end, and one thing I've been thinking. In the SQL window (in gda-fe),
> > > users are expected to type SQL sentences, so I think we should have a
> > > way of converting SQL to a XML query, so that gda-fe can ask the
> > > provider if it supports SQL (with gda_connection_supports), and if not,
> > > it will convert this SQL into a XML query. This also could be very
> > > useful for non-DBMS providers, such as the LDAP provider. The
> > > Gda_XmlQuery already has a way to convert from XML to SQL, so the
> > > counterpart is already done.
> > 
> > To implement this, wee need a lexical analyser. I think we could use the
> > Postgres one (because I knwo it has been reworked not too long ago, and it is
> > quite close to the SQL-92 specifications), and maybe modify it. But I'm afraid
> > I won't have time to do it soon.
> > 
> If there's nobody wanting to do it, I'll get it myself. Where can I find
> the sources?
> 

Have a look at the Postgres sources (http://www.postgresql.org) and in the
directory src/backend/parser (the file scan.l is the lexical scanner).
Have a look at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/src/tools/backend/index.html for more
infos on the parser,...

Cheers,

Vivien