Re: bison news

OK, now that _a_ bison exists that works, how does this effect our
release?  I don't see preproc.[ch] in CVS.  Do we need this new bison
version on postgresql.org because Marc generates these as part of his
install script?

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.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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