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.)

are now separate files "postgres.h" and "postgres_fe.h", which are meant
to be the primary include files for backend .c files and frontend .c files
respectively.  By default, only include files meant for frontend use are
installed into the installation include directory.  There is a new make
target 'make install-all-headers' that adds the whole content of the
src/include tree to the installed fileset, for use by people who want to
develop server-side code without keeping the complete source tree on hand.
Cleaned up a whole lot of crufty and inconsistent header inclusions.

in pghackers list.  Support for oldstyle internal functions is gone
(no longer needed, since conversion is complete) and pg_language entry
'internal' now implies newstyle call convention.  pg_language entry
'newC' is gone; both old and newstyle dynamically loaded C functions
are now called language 'C'.  A newstyle function must be identified
by an associated info routine.  See src/backend/utils/fmgr/README.

Datum, not char*, for portability's sake.

allows fixing problems with operators that expected to be able to
return a NULL, such as the '#' line-segment-intersection operator
that tried to return NULL when the two segments don't intersect.
(See, eg, bug report from 1-Nov-99 on pghackers.)  Fix some other
bugs in passing, such as backwards comparison in path_distance().

updated to new fmgr style.  Deleted hoary old functions for compatibility
with pre-6.1 representations of these datatypes.

one of updating the whole text datatype, but there are so dang many
calls of these two routines that it seems worth a separate commit.

functions that take pass-by-value datatypes.  Should be ready for
port testing ...

quote-stripping, and acl-checking tasks for these functions from the
parser, and do them at function execution time instead.  This fixes
the failure of pg_dump to produce correct output for nextval(Foo)
used in a rule, and also eliminates the restriction that the argument
of these functions must be a parse-time constant.

inputs have been converted to newstyle.  This should go a long way towards
fixing our portability problems with platforms where char and short
parameters are passed differently from int-width parameters.  Still
more to do for the Alpha port however.

CurrentTriggerData is history.

Jan

been applied. The patches are in the .tar.gz attachment at the end:

varchar-array.patch     this patch adds support for arrays of bpchar() and
                        varchar(), which where always missing from postgres.

                        These datatypes can be used to replace the _char4,
                        _char8, etc., which were dropped some time ago.

block-size.patch        this patch fixes many errors in the parser and other
                        program which happen with very large query statements
                        (> 8K) when using a page size larger than 8192.

                        This patch is needed if you want to submit queries
                        larger than 8K. Postgres supports tuples up to 32K
                        but you can't insert them because you can't submit
                        queries larger than 8K. My patch fixes this problem.

                        The patch also replaces all the occurrences of `8192'
                        and `1<<13' in the sources with the proper constants
                        defined in include files. You should now never find
                        8192 hardwired in C code, just to make code clearer.


--
Massimo Dal Zotto

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>

Ok. I made patches replacing all of "#if FALSE" or "#if 0" to "#ifdef
NOT_USED" for current. I have tested these patches in that the
postgres binaries are identical.

1. Remove the char2, char4, char8 and char16 types from postgresql
2. Change references of char16 to name in the regression tests.
3. Rename the char16.sql regression test to name.sql.  4. Modify
the regression test scripts and outputs to match up.

Might require new regression.{SYSTEM} files...

Darren King

Allow varchar() to only store needed bytes.  Remove PALLOC,PALLOCTYPE,PFREE.  Clean up use of VARDATA.

Change some labels in bootparse to make ctags happy.  Clean up outfunc/readfunc code and add missing fields for Query structure and new Union fields.  Fix optimizer bug shown in new \do command.  Change WARN to ERROR in contrib and regression stuff.

for regress test.

Another PGINDENT run that changes variable indenting and case label indenting.  Also static variable indenting.