Re: fix broken regression tests - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: fix broken regression tests
Date
Msg-id 200301150512.h0F5CRN04086@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: fix broken regression tests  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: fix broken regression tests
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:44, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I have a nasty feeling that you recently updated your bison, and the
> >> bison people saw fit to change the message wording?
>
> > Looks like it to me: I hadn't noticed, but Debian unstable recently
> > upgraded to bison 1.875 -- when I downgraded to 1.75 again, the
> > regression tests now pass without any problems.
>
> Ugh, that's bad news.  Can we lobby the bison folks to revert this
> random rewording of an error message?  Or at least make it configurable,
> so that we can avoid exposing any change to our users?

How many folks compile using bison?   Only the CVS folks, right?  One
idea would be to mask the change in the regression diff processing.

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