Re: plpgsql requires bison

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>
> I have received a report that pl/plpgsql requires bison to compile.  I
> have verified this is true, at least on BSD/OS 4.01, and since we enable
> plpgsql compile by default, this requires bison for our standard build.
>
> The issue appears to be contents of gram.tab.c, which is part of our
> distribution, and contains at the top:
>
> [...]
>
> Jan, is this a known portability problem?

    I  had expected portability problems with the PL/pgSQL parser
    and suggested to put prepared flex/bison  output  files  into
    our  distribution  as  we  do it for the main backend parser.
    Unfortunately I forgot about it.


Jan

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