Re: Speeding up the Postgres lexer - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Speeding up the Postgres lexer
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Msg-id 1118047484.3844.1356.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Speeding up the Postgres lexer  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 11:28 +1000, Neil Conway wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Dunno.  Depending on such a thing would require depending on a new flex
> > version, and seeing that the flex guys haven't put out a new release
> > since the badly broken 2.5.31 more than 2 years ago, I wouldn't hold
> > my breath waiting for one we can use.
> 
> It should be easy enough to check for the presence of the flag at 
> configure-time and only use it if flex implements it. Prior to reading 
> Simon's message I was actually thinking of hacking up the same thing :), 
> so I agree it is probably worth doing.

Neil,

I'll be doing this after the beta freeze is announced. If you wanted to
do this before then, I wouldn't stop you.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs





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