-
-Hi,
-
-thank you for the latest Postgres95 distribution!
-
->does the createuser bug still persist, or have
->we finally worked that one out?
-
-As has been indication by Bruce Momjian, the createuser problem was
-caused by a bug in flex 2.5.3 (which has been confirmed by Vern
-Paxson, the flex maintainer - many thanks to them); the bug will be
-fixed in flex 2.5.4. Vern Paxson has been so kind as to supply me with
-a patch that will be part of the 2.5.4 release; I'm including it below
-in case someone has installed flex 2.5.3 and doesn't want to go
-back to 2.5.2...
-
-Regards,
-
-Ernst
----
-*** flex-2.5.3/flex.skl Sat May 25 21:02:33 1996
---- flex.skl Tue Jul 2 16:35:49 1996
-***************
-*** 1,7 ****
- /* A lexical scanner generated by flex */
-
- /* Scanner skeleton version:
-! * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/Attic/README.flex,v 1.1.1.1 1996/08/18 22:14:17 scrappy Exp $
- */
-
- #define FLEX_SCANNER
---- 1,7 ----
- /* A lexical scanner generated by flex */
-
- /* Scanner skeleton version:
-! * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/Attic/README.flex,v 1.1.1.1 1996/08/18 22:14:17 scrappy Exp $
- */
-
- #define FLEX_SCANNER
-***************
-*** 783,789 ****
- /* don't do the read, it's not guaranteed to return an EOF,
- * just force an EOF
- */
-! yy_n_chars = 0;
-
- else
- {
---- 783,789 ----
- /* don't do the read, it's not guaranteed to return an EOF,
- * just force an EOF
- */
-! yy_current_buffer->yy_n_chars = yy_n_chars = 0;
-
- else
- {
-***************
-*** 838,843 ****
---- 838,845 ----
- /* Read in more data. */
- YY_INPUT( (&yy_current_buffer->yy_ch_buf[number_to_move]),
- yy_n_chars, num_to_read );
-+
-+ yy_current_buffer->yy_n_chars = yy_n_chars;
- }
-
- if ( yy_n_chars == 0 )
-***************
-*** 947,953 ****
-
- yy_cp += (int) (dest - source);
- yy_bp += (int) (dest - source);
-! yy_n_chars = yy_current_buffer->yy_buf_size;
-
- if ( yy_cp < yy_current_buffer->yy_ch_buf + 2 )
- YY_FATAL_ERROR( "flex scanner push-back overflow" );
---- 949,956 ----
-
- yy_cp += (int) (dest - source);
- yy_bp += (int) (dest - source);
-! yy_current_buffer->yy_n_chars =
-! yy_n_chars = yy_current_buffer->yy_buf_size;
-
- if ( yy_cp < yy_current_buffer->yy_ch_buf + 2 )
- YY_FATAL_ERROR( "flex scanner push-back overflow" );
-***************
-*** 997,1009 ****
-
- switch ( yy_get_next_buffer() )
- {
- case EOB_ACT_END_OF_FILE:
- {
- if ( yywrap() )
-- {
-- yy_c_buf_p = yytext_ptr + offset;
- return EOF;
-- }
-
- if ( ! yy_did_buffer_switch_on_eof )
- YY_NEW_FILE;
---- 1000,1025 ----
-
- switch ( yy_get_next_buffer() )
- {
-+ case EOB_ACT_LAST_MATCH:
-+ /* This happens because yy_g_n_b()
-+ * sees that we've accumulated a
-+ * token and flags that we need to
-+ * try matching the token before
-+ * proceeding. But for input(),
-+ * there's no matching to consider.
-+ * So convert the EOB_ACT_LAST_MATCH
-+ * to EOB_ACT_END_OF_FILE.
-+ */
-+
-+ /* Reset buffer status. */
-+ yyrestart( yyin );
-+
-+ /* fall through */
-+
- case EOB_ACT_END_OF_FILE:
- {
- if ( yywrap() )
- return EOF;
-
- if ( ! yy_did_buffer_switch_on_eof )
- YY_NEW_FILE;
-***************
-*** 1017,1031 ****
- case EOB_ACT_CONTINUE_SCAN:
- yy_c_buf_p = yytext_ptr + offset;
- break;
--
-- case EOB_ACT_LAST_MATCH:
-- #ifdef __cplusplus
-- YY_FATAL_ERROR(
-- "unexpected last match in yyinput()" );
-- #else
-- YY_FATAL_ERROR(
-- "unexpected last match in input()" );
-- #endif
- }
- }
- }
---- 1033,1038 ----
-
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