Quoting%20commentary for Sukkah 2:6

רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, אַרְבַּע עֶשְׂרֵה סְעוּדוֹת חַיָּב אָדָם לֶאֱכֹל בַּסֻּכָּה, אַחַת בַּיּוֹם וְאַחַת בַּלָּיְלָה. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים, אֵין לַדָּבָר קִצְבָה, חוּץ מִלֵּילֵי יוֹם טוֹב רִאשׁוֹן שֶׁל חָג בִּלְבָד. וְעוֹד אָמַר רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר, מִי שֶׁלֹּא אָכַל לֵילֵי יוֹם טוֹב הָרִאשׁוֹן, יַשְׁלִים בְּלֵילֵי יוֹם טוֹב הָאַחֲרוֹן. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים, אֵין לַדָּבָר תַּשְׁלוּמִין, עַל זֶה נֶאֱמַר (קהלת א) מְעֻוָּת לֹא יוּכַל לִתְקֹן, וְחֶסְרוֹן לֹא יוּכַל לְהִמָּנוֹת:

R. Eliezer says: One must eat fourteen meals in the succah, [two meals each day for seven days], one in the daytime and one at night. And the sages say: There is no set amount. [i.e., If he wishes to eat, he may not eat outside the succah; if he wishes to fast he may do so] — except the first night of the festival alone (when he must eat in the succah), [this being derived (by identity) (Leviticus 23:34): "On the fifteenth day … is the festival of succoth" - (Ibid. 6): "On the fifteenth day," in respect to Pesach. Just as the eating of matzah on the first night of Pesach is mandatory, and, on the other days, optional; so, too, in respect to (eating in a) succah.] R. Eliezer said further: If one did not eat (in a succah) the nights of the first festival, he must make it up on the nights of the second festival [i.e., the night of Shemini Atzereth]. The sages say: There is no making it up. Of such (things) it is written (Koheleth 1:15): "What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted." [The halachah is not in accordance with R. Eliezer in both instances.]

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