Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Not that hard to believe. 2.5.4 is what the major distributions are >>shipping. >>Even FC4 comes with 2.5.4a. The only reason I can see for this is that Flex >>is now considered a NON-GNU project. > > > No, the major reason for it is that flex 2.5.31 is seriously broken and > non-compatible with its prior releases. I wasn't aware that they'd gone > so far as to remove a documented macro (one that was documented in 2.5.4 > as the *preferred* way to do things, mind you) but we already knew of > several other issues with it. See the archives. > > I'll try to snarf a copy and see if there's a way to do it that's > compatible with both releases, but it's the flex authors' own fault > that 2.5.31 has had such poor uptake.
hmm it does not seem to work with the 2.5.4 version debian supplies as "flex-old" too - maybe the following debian bug report(filed against woody!) is related to this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=194904 Stefan ---------------------------(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
