diff --git a/src/backend/parser/scan.l b/src/backend/parser/scan.l
index 7e6a5bb1b1c23caf82efe671e021ffe1d92214ab..f0f4626b953edd22c5fe0bacd24488fffb5eb6c5 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/scan.l
+++ b/src/backend/parser/scan.l
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/scan.l,v 1.85 2001/01/24 19:43:03 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/scan.l,v 1.86 2001/02/03 20:13:05 petere Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ static int myinput(char* buf, int max);
 /* No reason to constrain amount of data slurped per myinput() call. */
 #define YY_READ_BUF_SIZE 16777216
 
+/* Avoid exit() on fatal scanner errors (a bit ugly -- see yy_fatal_error) */
+#define fprintf(file, fmt, msg)  elog(FATAL, "%s", (msg))
+
 #else /* !FLEX_SCANNER */
 
 #undef input