Re: [HACKERS] Odd historical fact about Bison

2009-07-11 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:43:02PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >Mac OSX 10.4.11 - GNU Bison version 1.28 > > We have not supported any version less than 1.875 for as long as I > have been working on Postgres. We switched to 1.50 at some point in 2002 because we had to, ecpg had reached the lim

Re: [HACKERS] Odd historical fact about Bison

2009-07-11 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Shane Ambler wrote: The real question is slow-to-upgrade OSes like HP-UX, AIX, OpenBSD and Solaris. What version of Bison are they shipping with? Mac OSX 10.4.11 - GNU Bison version 1.28 We have not supported any version less than 1.875 for as long as I have been working on Postgres.

Re: [HACKERS] Odd historical fact about Bison

2009-07-11 Thread Josh Berkus
On 7/11/09 12:24 PM, Shane Ambler wrote: The real question is slow-to-upgrade OSes like HP-UX, AIX, OpenBSD and Solaris. What version of Bison are they shipping with? Mac OSX 10.4.11 - GNU Bison version 1.28 Hmmm, given the number of other OSS things which won't install on 10.4 (like Firefox

Re: [HACKERS] Odd historical fact about Bison

2009-07-11 Thread Shane Ambler
The real question is slow-to-upgrade OSes like HP-UX, AIX, OpenBSD and Solaris. What version of Bison are they shipping with? Mac OSX 10.4.11 - GNU Bison version 1.28 -- Shane Ambler pgSQL (at) Sheeky (dot) Biz -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [HACKERS] Odd historical fact about Bison

2009-07-09 Thread Dickson S. Guedes
Em Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:58:01 -0300, Josh Berkus escreveu: The real question is slow-to-upgrade OSes like HP-UX, AIX, OpenBSD and Solaris. What version of Bison are they shipping with? In AIX 5.3: bison (GNU Bison) 1.875 []s Dickson S. Guedes http://pgcon.postgresql.org.br http://www.postg

Re: [HACKERS] Odd historical fact about Bison

2009-07-09 Thread Andres Freund
On Friday 10 July 2009 00:58:01 Josh Berkus wrote: > Tom, > > > As best I can tell, they ended up not changing the API, and there is no > > reason we shouldn't depend on the feature and continue to claim that we > > work with bison>= 1.875. Does anyone feel uncomfortable with that? > > (It may be

Re: [HACKERS] Odd historical fact about Bison

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin Grittner
Josh Berkus wrote: > The real question is slow-to-upgrade OSes like HP-UX, AIX, OpenBSD > and Solaris. What version of Bison are they shipping with? I don't know about them, but just so you know: kgri...@inhouseapps:~> cat /etc/SuSE-release SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (i586) VERSION = 9

Re: [HACKERS] Odd historical fact about Bison

2009-07-09 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, As best I can tell, they ended up not changing the API, and there is no reason we shouldn't depend on the feature and continue to claim that we work with bison>= 1.875. Does anyone feel uncomfortable with that? (It may be of mostly academic interest anyway, since I bet few people are still