bison error

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 01:58, bigapple wrote:

When I check out the pgsql from cvs and I complile it, an error occured .

dir: pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc
bison -y -d preproc.y
erro information:
preproc.y:5559: fatal error: maximum table size (32767) exceeded.

You need to use Bison 1.50 or greater, due to a limitation in previous
versions of Bison.

Cheers,

Neil
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bigapple wrote:

hi,
When I check out the pgsql from cvs and I complile it, an error occured .

dir: pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc
bison -y -d preproc.y
erro information:
preproc.y:5559: fatal error: maximum table size (32767) exceeded.

You need at least version 1.5 of bison. Last time I checked, the latest out
was 1.75

However, I used the source from the ftp, find preproc.c in there. gmake will skip the
step(bison -y -d preproc.y) and succeeded.

who can tell me why?

Source distributions contain preprocessed files so that you can compile
PostgreSQL without needing bison installed. I think you only need bison if you
get source code from CVS (or want to hack the grammar in the source distribution).

HTH,

Joe