I'm writing a parser for the very first time and I can't seem to resolve a reduce/reduce conflict the elegant way I want to use. (Yes, I'm writing my own SQL parser. Yes, I know there's modules that do this. Yes, I have a reason to do so.) 
database_ident:
    ident
;

table_ident:
    database_ident '.' ident
  | ident
;

column_ident:
    table_ident '.' ident
  | ident
;

ident:
    IDENT
  | IDENT_QUOTED
;

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Parse::Yapp is complaining about 2 reduce/reduce conflicts whenever I try to use column_ident. If I manually expand table_ident and database_ident in the dependent rules, the reduce/reduce conflicts go away. But, I don't want to do that because I anticipate extending those rules over time and don't want to have the rule in multiple places. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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In reply to (OT) Yapp rules and resolving reduce/reduce errors by dragonchild

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