Re: 7.3beta and ecpg - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: 7.3beta and ecpg
Date
Msg-id 200209110539.g8B5d4421151@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: 7.3beta and ecpg  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > We will not find out if there are problems with the bison beta until we
> > ship it as part of beta and I don't think we have to be scared of just
> > because it is beta.
> 
> No?  If there are bugs in it, they will break the main SQL parser, not
> only ecpg.  I am scared.
> 
> My idea of a reasonable fallback is to add prebuilt-with-the-beta-bison
> output files to the ecpg directory, but not anyplace else.  That is
> ugly, but the effects of any bison problems will be limited to ecpg.

Yes, I assumed we would use the new bison only for ecpg.

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