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

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>
Date: 2009-12-21T03:24:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Monday 21 December 2009 04:23:57 Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> 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 water if you are willing to follow the same
> rules as we use for flex/bison, ie, they are not needed to build from
> a source tarball.  Otherwise this *is* moving the goalposts on required
> tool support.
The patch already does that if I understood John correctly.

Andres