Re: [HACKERS] Status report: long-query-string changes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Leon <leon(at)udmnet(dot)ru>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Status report: long-query-string changes
Date: 1999-09-12 00:38:21
Message-ID: 800.937096701@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Leon <leon(at)udmnet(dot)ru> writes:
> There are more size restrictions there. I noticed (by simply eyeing the
> lexer source, without testing) that in case of flex lexer
> (FLEX_LEXER being defined in scan.c) lexer can't
> swallow big queries. You (Tom and Michael) aren't using flex,
> are you?

Huh? flex is the only lexer that works with the Postgres .l files,
as far as I know. Certainly it's what I'm using.

If you're looking at the "literal" buffer, that would need to be made
expansible, but there's not much point until flex's internal stuff is
fixed.

regards, tom lane

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