example of a custom dialect which allows date('xxx') syntax by removing 'date' from the list of keywords

simple-sql-parser.cabal

@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ Test-Suite Tests
                        Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.Tests,
                        Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.Tpch,
                        Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.ScalarExprs,
-                       Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.LexerTests
+                       Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.LexerTests,
+                       Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.CustomDialect
 
   other-extensions:    TupleSections,DeriveDataTypeable
   default-language:    Haskell2010

tools/Language/SQL/SimpleSQL/CustomDialect.lhs

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+
+> module Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.CustomDialect (customDialectTests) where
+
+> import Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.TestTypes
+
+> customDialectTests :: TestItem
+> customDialectTests = Group "custom dialect tests" (map (ParseQueryExpr myDialect) sometests
+>     ++ [ParseScalarExprFails ansi2011 "SELECT DATE('2000-01-01')"])
+>   where
+>     myDialect = ansi2011 {diKeywords = filter (/="date") (diKeywords ansi2011)}
+>     sometests = ["SELECT DATE('2000-01-01')"]

tools/Language/SQL/SimpleSQL/TestTypes.lhs

@@ -4,11 +4,12 @@ Tests.lhs module for the 'interpreter'.
 
 > module Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.TestTypes
 >     (TestItem(..)
->     ,ansi2011,mysql,postgres,oracle,sqlserver
+>     ,module Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.Dialect
->     ,diOdbc) where
+>     ) where
 
 > import Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.Syntax
 > import Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.Lex (Token)
+> import Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.Dialect
 
 TODO: maybe make the dialect args into [dialect], then each test
 checks all the dialects mentioned work, and all the dialects not

tools/Language/SQL/SimpleSQL/Tests.lhs

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ test data to the Test.Framework tests.
 
 > import Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.MySQL
 > import Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.Oracle
+> import Language.SQL.SimpleSQL.CustomDialect
 
 Order the tests to start from the simplest first. This is also the
 order on the generated documentation.
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ order on the generated documentation.
 >     ,sql2011BitsTests
 >     ,mySQLTests
 >     ,oracleTests
+>     ,customDialectTests
 >     ]
 
 > tests :: T.TestTree