Per gripes from Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZhTQ6_w1vwOhqTQI@paquier.xyz
Along the way, also clean up a handful of typos in 3311ea86ed and
ea7b4e9a2a, found by Alexander Lakhin, and a couple of stylistic
snafus noted by Daniel Westermann and Daniel Gustafsson.
The link commands in test_json_parser/Makefile were a long way
shy of a load, as evidenced by buildfarm failures. Model them
on pgxs.mk's PROGRAM rule. (Probably we should have put these
two test programs in different subdirectories so we could
actually use the PROGRAM rule. But I won't question that
decision today.)
Add overlooked .gitignore entries.
Fix test_json_parser/Makefile to use the pgxs.mk clean rule
instead of fighting it. Suppresses a warning from make,
at least for me.
This parser uses an explicit prediction stack, unlike the present
recursive descent parser where the parser state is represented on the
call stack. This difference makes the new parser suitable for use in
incremental parsing of huge JSON documents that cannot be conveniently
handled piece-wise by the recursive descent parser. One potential use
for this will be in parsing large backup manifests associated with
incremental backups.
Because this parser is somewhat slower than the recursive descent
parser, it is not replacing that parser, but is an additional parser
available to callers.
For testing purposes, if the build is done with -DFORCE_JSON_PSTACK, all
JSON parsing is done with the non-recursive parser, in which case only
trivial regression differences in error messages should be observed.
Author: Andrew Dunstan
Reviewed-By: Jacob Champion
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7b0a51d6-0d9d-7366-3a1a-f74397a02f55@dunslane.net
Andrew Dunstan
Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane