Re: Autoconf test for incompatible version of flex

Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> I inquired about this problem elsewhere, it's not a bug, it's an API change.
> Until postgres "ports" to the new API it won't work with newer versions of
> Flex.

If their intent was to break things, why wasn't this called flex 3.0?
Or at least 2.6?  Calling it a minor version bump has to violate a
truth-in-advertising law or two.

            regards, tom lane