Tom Lane wrote:
> Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca> writes:
> > Updated to tag REL7_2_4 on FreeBSD 4.7 and cannot compile it. gram.y
> > errors complaining: invalid character: ','.
>
> > bash-2.05b$ bison --version
> > bison (GNU Bison) 1.75
>
> We just had that discussion on pgcore. The 7.2 grammar was developed
> against bison 1.28; it works with warnings against bison 1.35, but bison
> 1.75 just flat rejects it (not for any significant reason, but just
> because they decided to get anal-retentive about whether they'd allow
> commas in keyword lists).
>
> We could update the 7.2 grammar and compile it with the latest bison,
> but we were worried about whether we might introduce any subtle problems
> if we did. The 7.2 branch has received zero testing with bison 1.75.
>
> ISTM that the eve of what'll probably be our last dot-release for 7.2
> is not the time to drop a new bison into its toolchain.
Ooops. Last patch wasn't done using CVS diff. This one is, in case
it matters...
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