Re: backend/parser compile prob

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:42:45PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> writes:
... 
> > What string constant?! Will try again later...
>
> Which flex version are you using?  You need 2.5.4 --- the most recent
> versions have broken backwards compatibility :-(.  I'm not sure what the
> symptom looks like, though.

Answer is: a broken flex 2.5.4. There were some commits to NetBSD flex to
use bounded strings. Using 13th July flex source builds a happy PostgreSQL.
Now to track down which bit broke - anyway, not a PostgreSQL problem :-)

Cheers,

Patrick
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