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

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: fix broken regression tests
Date
Msg-id 200301150522.h0F5Mh104829@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  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > How many folks compile using bison?   Only the CVS folks, right?  One
> > idea would be to mask the change in the regression diff processing.
>
> And you will mask it from our clients the same way?  The regression
> tests are not the only things that are looking for that string.
>
> The bison folk have already cost us one flag day in the recent past.
> I don't propose to lay down quietly while they cost us another one for
> no better reason than that somebody decided "syntax error" read better
> than what they had used for the last umpteen years.

I am just saying if we can't get it reverted, that will be our fallback.
Also, they have to release the reverted version soon or there will be
enough different bisons around that we will have to workaround it
anyway.

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