Re: Speeding up the Postgres lexer

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Speeding up the Postgres lexer
Date: 2005-05-25 01:28:46
Message-ID: 4293D4CE.50308@samurai.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Dunno. Depending on such a thing would require depending on a new flex
> version, and seeing that the flex guys haven't put out a new release
> since the badly broken 2.5.31 more than 2 years ago, I wouldn't hold
> my breath waiting for one we can use.

It should be easy enough to check for the presence of the flag at
configure-time and only use it if flex implements it. Prior to reading
Simon's message I was actually thinking of hacking up the same thing :),
so I agree it is probably worth doing.

-Neil

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