Re: bison news - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: bison news
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Msg-id 6822.1029857572@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: bison news  (Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>)
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Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:10:01AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> BTW, I spent some time looking at the problem, and it seems the issue
>> is not overrun of any bison internal table, but failure to compress the
>> resulting "action table" into 32K entries.  This means that the required

> Ouch! This of course is not so much a problem for ecpg but for the
> backend should we run into the problem there too.

As of CVS tip a few days ago, the backend's action table was about 27K
entries.  So we have some breathing room, but certainly in the
foreseeable future there will be a problem...
        regards, tom lane


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