includes two changes in the JDBC driver:

1) When connected to a backend >= 7.2: use obj_description() and
col_description() instead of direct access to pg_description.

2) In DatabaseMetaData.getTables()/getColumns()/getProcedures():
when there is no comment on the object, return null in the
REMARKS column of the ResultSet, instead of the default string
"no remarks".

Change 2 first appeared as a side-effect of change 1, but it is
actually more compliant with the JDBC spec: "String object
containing an explanatory comment on the table/column/procedure,
which may be null". The default string "no remarks" was strictly
speaking incorrect, as it could not be distinguished from a real
user comment "no remarks". So I removed the default string
completely.

Change 2 might break existing code that doesn't follow the JDBC
spec and isn't prepared to handle a null in the REMARKS column
of getTables()/getColumns()/getProcedures.

Patch tested with jdbc2 against both a 7.1 and a CVS tip
backend. I did not have a jdbc1 environment to build and test
with, but since the touched code is identical in jdbc1 and jdbc2
I don't foresee any problems.

Regards,
Ren? Pijlman

From Mark Stosberg.

has an alias SERIAL4 and a sister SERIAL8.  SERIAL8 is just the same
except the created column is type int8 not int4.
initdb forced.  Note this also breaks any chance of pg_upgrade from 7.1,
unless we hack up pg_upgrade to drop and recreate sequences.  (Which is
not out of the question, but I don't wanna do it.)

the first result in the DB-API compliant wrapper. It turned out that the bug
was way down in the C code.

Gerhard Häring

Allow pg_shadow to be MD5 encrypted.
Add ENCRYPTED/UNENCRYPTED option to CREATE/ALTER user.
Add password_encryption postgresql.conf option.
Update wire protocol version to 2.1.

for speed reasons; its result type also changes to int8.  avg() on these
datatypes now accumulates the running sum in int8 for speed; but we still
deliver the final result as numeric, so that fractional accuracy is
preserved.

count() now counts and returns in int8, not int4.  I am a little nervous
about this possibly breaking users' code, but there didn't seem to be
a strong sentiment for avoiding the problem.  If we get complaints during
beta, we can change count back to int4 and add a "count8" aggregate.
For that matter, users can do it for themselves with a simple CREATE
AGGREGATE command; the int4inc function is still present, so no C hacking
is needed.

Also added max() and min() aggregates for OID that do proper unsigned
comparison, instead of piggybacking on int4 aggregates.

initdb forced.

a tad sloppy about generating the targetlist for some nodes, by generating
a tlist entry that claimed to be a constant when the value wasn't actually
constant.  This caused setrefs.c to do the wrong thing later on.

syntax for language names (instead of 'string').

createlang now handles the case where a second language uses the same call
handler as an already installed language (e.g., plperl/plperlu).

droplang now handles the reverse case, i.e., dropping a language where
the call handler is still used by another language.  Moreover, droplang
can now be used to drop any user-defined language, not just the supplied
ones.

From Joe Conway.

Needed to keep pg_dump from getting confused.

Don't hardcode the maximum accepted server version, use PG_VERSION instead.
Install a notice processor so notices are handled like error messages.
Word smithing.

case where there are resjunk columns in the query.

awhile, but the man page didn't know it.

Other small improvements.

our own code ...