| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| 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>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: 7.3beta and ecpg |
| Date: | 2002-09-11 05:39:04 |
| Message-ID: | 200209110539.g8B5d4421151@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)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.
>
> My idea of a reasonable fallback is to add prebuilt-with-the-beta-bison
> output files to the ecpg directory, but not anyplace else. That is
> ugly, but the effects of any bison problems will be limited to ecpg.
Yes, I assumed we would use the new bison only for ecpg.
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