> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:13 AM
> To: Michael Meskes
> Cc: PostgreSQL Hacker
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ECPG won't compile anymore
> 
> 
> Michael Meskes wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:29:10AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > I'd be inclined to say that you don't commit until bison 1.49 is
> > > officially released.  Got any idea when that will be?
> > 
> > No, that's the problem. ECPG and the backend parser are 
> running out of
> > sync. After all bison's release may be later than our next one. 
> > 
> > I cannot commit even simple bugfixes anymore as my source tree
> > already has the uncompilable bison file. So I would have to 
> work on two
> > different source trees. I don't exactly like that.
> 
> Are we the only ones up against this problem?  Hard to imagine we are
> the only ones up against this limit in bison.  Are there 
> other options? 
> I don't see how we can distribute ecpg in 7.3 without some 
> kind of fix.

There are some other freely available parser/generators.  I like the
Lemmon parser generator.  Of course, I have no idea how traumatic it
would be to convert a Bison grammar into Lemmon.  There is also PCCTS
and some other free ones.

http://www.hwaci.com/sw/lemon/

Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:50:50 -0700
"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com>
Re: ECPG won't compile anymore