Re: Minimum bison and flex versions

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-09-02T21:04:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2022-09-02 16:29:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2022-09-02 15:08:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> As fodder for discussion, here's a scraping of the currently-tested
> >> versions.  (This counts only animals running configure, ie not MSVC.
> >> Also, my query looked back a few months, so some recently-dead
> >> animals are still here.)
> 
> > All the other animals using bison < 3.0.2 are dead.
> 
> Uh, what?

Argh, regex fail. I looked for a version with 3 components :/.


> I'd be content for now to set the minimums at 2.3 and 2.5.35.

+1

Greetings,

Andres Freund



Commits

  1. Bump minimum version of Flex to 2.5.35

  2. Bump minimum version of Bison to 2.3