Re: bison news

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bison news
Date: 2002-08-20 15:21:56
Message-ID: 20020820152156.GA8374@feivel.credativ.de
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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.

> ...
> Also, it seemed to me that the most leverage on the size of the
> compressed action table would be gained by reducing the number of
> terminal symbols, more so than the number of rules. Dunno if there
> is a lot you can do about that, but it's a thought.

Will look at it.

Michael
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