Re: bison news - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: bison news
Date
Msg-id 200208202117.g7KLHkX05185@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: bison news  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: bison news  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > OK, now that _a_ bison exists that works, how does this effect our
> > release?  I don't see preproc.[ch] in CVS.  Do we need this new bison
> > version on postgresql.org because Marc generates these as part of his
> > install script?
> 
> I don't think we want a beta bison on postgres.org.  Let's see if we can
> hold out for a release...

Well, we had better get it on or it will get zero testing, and we _need_
it for the 7.3 release of ecpg, because as I remember, we didn't have
any other good backup plans.  ;-)

This may be a case where we have to do some beta testing on our own. I
will grab the bison beta myself for my machine.

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