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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: 7.3beta and ecpg
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0209110050090.31757-100000@cm-lcon1-46-187.cm.vtr.net
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In response to Re: 7.3beta and ecpg  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: 7.3beta and ecpg  (Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>)
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Tom Lane dijo: 

> 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.

Just for the record: bison 1.49b reports lots of "invalid character"
when processing plpgsql's grammar.  However, the regression test passes.
This is Linux/i686.

$ make gram.c -C src/pl/plpgsql/src
make: Entering directory `/home/alvherre/CVS/pgsql/src/pl/plpgsql/src'
bison -y  gram.y 
gram.y:101.24: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:102.25: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:104.26: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:104.44: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:106.24: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:108.29: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:108.46: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:111.24: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:112.22: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:112.37: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:117.25: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:121.24: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:121.36: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:121.47: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:122.23: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:123.25: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:123.34: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:123.45: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:123.57: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:124.25: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:124.43: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:124.55: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:125.23: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:125.34: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:125.47: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:126.29: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:126.43: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:127.23: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:127.35: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:130.25: invalid character: `,'
gram.y:134.26: invalid character: `,'

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
"El conflicto es el camino real hacia la union"



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