Re: bison news

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bison news
Date: 2002-08-20 15:32:52
Message-ID: 6822.1029857572@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)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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