Re: [HACKERS] Patch: Remove all declarations from pg_attribute.h, consolidate BKI scripts

2009-12-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund writes: >> On Monday 21 December 2009 02:23:39 Robert Haas wrote: >>> A more important point is whether we really need to make this >>> dependent on Perl 5.6 or later. > >> I dont see a platform without perl 5.6 where a new enough

Re: [HACKERS] Patch: Remove all declarations from pg_attribute.h, consolidate BKI scripts

2009-12-20 Thread John Naylor
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Andres Freund wrote: > On Monday 21 December 2009 04:23:57 Tom Lane wrote: >> Andres Freund writes: >> > On Monday 21 December 2009 02:23:39 Robert Haas wrote: >> >> A more important point is whether we really need to make this >> >> dependent on Perl 5.6 or later

Re: [HACKERS] Patch: Remove all declarations from pg_attribute.h, consolidate BKI scripts

2009-12-20 Thread Andres Freund
On Monday 21 December 2009 04:23:57 Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund writes: > > On Monday 21 December 2009 02:23:39 Robert Haas wrote: > >> A more important point is whether we really need to make this > >> dependent on Perl 5.6 or later. > > > > I dont see a platform without perl 5.6 where a new

Re: [HACKERS] Patch: Remove all declarations from pg_attribute.h, consolidate BKI scripts

2009-12-20 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > On Monday 21 December 2009 02:23:39 Robert Haas wrote: >> A more important point is whether we really need to make this >> dependent on Perl 5.6 or later. > I dont see a platform without perl 5.6 where a new enough flex/bison is > available... That argument only holds wa

Re: [HACKERS] Patch: Remove all declarations from pg_attribute.h, consolidate BKI scripts

2009-12-20 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On Monday 21 December 2009 02:23:39 Robert Haas wrote: > A more important point is whether we really need to make this > dependent on Perl 5.6 or later. What features are we using here that > actually require Perl 5.6? I suspect the answer is "none, but we > don't like writing the code in a

Re: [HACKERS] Patch: Remove all declarations from pg_attribute.h, consolidate BKI scripts

2009-12-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:20 PM, John Naylor wrote: > Greetings, > > Following up on my experimental patch last month to revamp the BKI > infrastructure, I am proposing a less invasive set of changes with the > hope of offering something committable. Some of these were discussed > by Robert Haas a