Re: Odd historical fact about Bison

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Odd historical fact about Bison
Date: 2009-07-09 22:58:01
Message-ID: 4A5675F9.5080902@agliodbs.com
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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?

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
www.pgexperts.com

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