partially split

The whole file needs updating, but will work on that after finishing
with the splits

user-friendly (and more useful)

'master' file

Commit mods to regress.sh so that split out tests are run...look forward
to finding out how to do a proper redirect to continue visual cleanup :)

tests allows us to have a 'for...done' loop inside of regress.sh for
both doing the tests, and determining fail/ok results

AddGroupAttrToTlist() is not called from anywhere now.

Submitted by Raymond Toy.

Subject: [HACKERS] Fix for European dates

This apparently fixes the European date reading problem reported
by several (European) bleeding edge adopters. I tried a few test
cases and it doesn't break the non-EuroDate cases in my test suite.

Clean up the .sample files...comment out all sample entries except for
the localhost one

FreeBSD

The Makefile(s) have all been cleaned up such that there is a single
LDFLAGS vs LD_ADD or LDADD or LDFLAGS or LDFLAGS_BE.  The Makefile(s)
should be alot more straightforward then they were before...and
consistent

Clean up format of linux-elf

	Further extended Makefile.global/build/configure so that we can
have a 'template' file for each OS (and each version of OS, as in BSDi)
which is used as much as possible to generate Makefile.global

	Any future ports should look at using the template file as a basis,
before moving over to Makefile.global.

	This will most probably break alot of the ports, atho I've tried to
be very neat about it...

Pointed out by: System Administrator <sysadmin@sba.miami.edu>

	Allow installer to change DEF_PGPORT
	Allow installer to disable HBA

Remove USE_LOCALE from Makefile.global.in
Add USE_LOCALE to build/configure/config.h

Add check for BUILDRUN in configure to make sure that build is run before
configure

Subject: [HACKERS] timestamp.c changes

I sent in changes previously and they were rejected because they didn't
follow ANSI spec.  Here is the input part of the changes again.  Even
though it allows more flexibility for inputting different formats, it
is also backwards compatible with the standard version.  I have also
not changed the output format so it will still output the ANSI forms.
Is this acceptable to everyone?

Subject: [HACKERS] Aggregate function patches

Here are the aggregate function patches I originally sent in last December.
They fix sum() and avg() behavior for ints and floats when NULL values are
involved.

I was waiting to resubmit these until I had a chance to write a v6.0->v6.1
database upgrade script to ensure that existing v6.0 databases which have
not been reloaded for v6.1 do no break with the new aggregate behavior.
These scripts are included below. It's OK with me if someone wants to do
something different with the upgrade strategy, but something like this
was discussed a few weeks ago.

Also, there were a couple of small items which cropped up in doing a clean
install of 970403 (actually 970402 + 970403 changes since the full 970403
tar file appears to be damaged or at least suspect). They are the first
two patches below and can be omitted if desired (although I think they
aren't dangerous :).

Subject: [HACKERS] More date time functions

Here are some additional patches mostly related to the date and time
data types. It includes some type conversion routines to move between
the different date types and some other date manipulation routines such
as date_part(units,datetime).

I noticed Edmund Mergl et al's neat trick for getting function overloading
for builtin functions, so started to use that for the date and time stuff.
Later, if someone figures out how to get function overloading directly
for internal C code, then we can move to that technique.

These patches include documentation updates (don't faint!) for the built-in
man page. Doesn't yet include mention of timestamp, since I don't know
much about it and since it may change a bit to become a _real_ ANSI timestamp
which would include parser support for the declaration syntax (what do you
think, Dan?).

The patches were developed on the 970330 release, but have been rebuilt
off of the 970402 release. The first patch below is to get libpq to compile,
on my Linux box, but is not related to the rest of the patches and you can
choose not to apply that one at this time. Thanks in advance, scrappy!

Subject: [HACKERS] libpq variable set patch

  Just a small change, so the automatic variable setting on
connection startup actually works...

Subject: [HACKERS] Patch: SET var TO 'val'

  Here is a patch that adds a "SET variable TO 'somevalue'" capability
to the parser, and then calls the SetPGVariable() function (which does
just issue a elog(NOTICE) to see whether it works).

  That's the framework for adding timezone/date format/language/...
stuff.

Subject: [HACKERS] Small patch to pgtclCmds.c

Hi I have made the following small change to the extensions I made to
pgtclCmds.c quite a while ago.

At the moment there is a -assignbyidx option to pg_result assigning the
returned tuples to an array by using the 1st field of the select statement
as the key to the array.
eg "select name,age from vitalstatistics" will result in an array with

myarray(peter) = 32
myarray(paul)  = 45

Often I need to have a pseudo-multi dimentional
array eg. "select name,age from vitalstatistics where occupation='plummer'

I would like to be able to generate an array
newarray(peter,overpaid) = 32

So to add a arbitrary string to the key value I have extended

  pg_result $res -assignbyidx $arrayname

to have an optional argument

  pg_result $res -assignbyidx $arrayname $appendstr

So that that string is appended to the key value.

Subject: [HACKERS] locale patches !

Hi there,

here are little patches to get Postgres 6.1 works with locale stuff.
This is a patch against 970402.tar.gz, there are no problem to apply them
by hand to 6.0 release. Collate stuff tested about 1-2 months in real
working database but I'm sure there must be no problem. US hackers
could vote against locale implementation ( locale for sure will affect to
speed of postgres ), so I introduce variable USE_LOCALE which
controls locale stuff. Non-US users now could use ~* operator
for searching and <order by> for strings with nation alphabet.
Please, don't forget, as I did first time, to set environment variable
LC_CTYPE and LC_COLLATE because backend get locale information from them.
I start postmaster from a little script, assuming that shell is Bash shell
it looks like:

#!/bin/sh

export LC_CTYPE=koi8-r
export LC_COLLATE=koi8-r
postmaster -B 1024 -S -D/usr/local/pgsql/data/ -o '-Fe'