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[Igor Babaev <igor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/03/2015 05:57 AM, Sergei Golubchik wrote:
> Hi, Justin!
> 
> On Mar 03, Justin Swanhart wrote:
>> You can't drop a busy proc in production to replace it.  Many users
>> would get an error.  This is the same reason views have had CoR for so
>> long. So yes it is a big deal!
> 
> Okay, I'm happy to know it.
> My main reason for offering this GSoC project was syntax consistency.
> Same syntax works identically for all objects, just as a user expects,
> no gotchas or unpleasant surprises.
> 
>> Anyway, what I want most are Antony Curtis' stored proc / parser
>> changes (mdev 820 if I'm not mistaken).  I am especially interested in
>> table functions and external stored routines.  
> 
> Yes, I'd be happy to see them in 10.2. It's too early to tell what is
> going to be there, but I'll certainly put them at the top of list.
> 
>> I'd also like to discuss window functions too.  I've implemented them
>> in shard-query and have ideas about how to implement them in the
>> server, but pluggable parser would be really useful here.
> 
> Window functions have a good chance of being in 10.2, it's MDEV-6115.
> But I don't think that somebody is working on MDEV-6115 yet.

I started working on MDEV-6115 some time ago.

Regards,
Igor.

> I'm afraid that a pluggable parser is practically impossible to do
> with bison generated parsers. For a recursive descent parser - yes, but
> not with bison parsers :(
> 
> The best we can do, I think, is to generalize certain parts of the
> parser by using a generic 'identifier' rule instead of a specific
> hard-coded keyword token. We've done it a couple of times for plugins:
> 
> in CREATE TABLE: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/engine-defined-new-tablefieldindex-attributes/
> and in SHOW and FLUSH: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/information-schema-plugins-show-and-flush-statements/
> 
> Regards,
> Sergei
> 
> 
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