Re: Odd historical fact about Bison - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Odd historical fact about Bison
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In response to Odd historical fact about Bison  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom,

> As best I can tell, they ended up not changing the API, and there is no
> reason we shouldn't depend on the feature and continue to claim that we
> work with bison>= 1.875.  Does anyone feel uncomfortable with that?
> (It may be of mostly academic interest anyway, since I bet few people
> are still using such old bison versions.  The only reason I've got one
> is for intentional trailing-edge compatibility testing...)

The real question is slow-to-upgrade OSes like HP-UX, AIX, OpenBSD and 
Solaris.  What version of Bison are they shipping with?

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
www.pgexperts.com


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