Kris Jurka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Tom Lane wrote: >> The short answer is that you should install flex 2.5.4, or else forget >> about testing the 7.2 branch. I don't think anyone will be very >> interested in making 7.2 work with flex 2.5.31.
> Actually there are problems in the 7.3 branch as well in the cube, > tsearch, and seg modules. Here are some patches for the 7.2 version check > and 7.2 and 7.3 tsearch code. I'll work on getting cube and seg up to > speed as well if people agree we want these fixes. The cube and seg fixes were pretty invasive, and I have a feeling that there were other changes needed in all the .l files to play nice with 2.5.31 (though a quick troll of the CVS logs failed to show any other patches specifically marked that way). My opinion is that we should just say "flex 2.5.31 is unsupported before PG 7.4" --- and possibly fix the configure tests to reject it in 7.3 too. This is a considerably bigger issue for the buildfarm than it would be for ordinary users of our distribution, since in the distro it's only the contrib modules that you actually need to run through your local flex. On a buildfarm machine you had better be running the project-approved versions of bison and flex. At this writing, the approved version of flex is still 2.5.4, even for CVS tip. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match