Re: Upgrading our minimum required flex version for 8.5

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Since 2.5.33 is now over three years old, this does not seem like an
>>> onerous requirement, but I thought I'd better ask if anyone has an
>>> objection?
>> 
>> You'd be causing problems for SuSE Enterprise users, like us:

> Keep in mind that if you build from a tarball, the lexer has already
> been run elsewhere and you don't need flex.

Right, this will only affect people doing development or otherwise
building from a CVS pull.
        regards, tom lane