A fatal scanner error (likely a memory exhaustion problem) causes a straight exit() without clean up, which causes a system-wide restart. This should fix it: *** scan.l 2001/01/24 19:43:03 1.85 --- scan.l 2001/01/27 14:14:29 *************** *** 55,60 **** --- 55,62 ---- /* No reason to constrain amount of data slurped per myinput() call. */ #define YY_READ_BUF_SIZE 16777216 + #define YY_FATAL_ERROR(msg) elog(FATAL, "%s", (msg)) + #else /* !FLEX_SCANNER */ #undef input But you will now get an unavoidable scan.c:2145: warning: `yy_fatal_error' defined but not used Objections or concerns? -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/
