syntax apparently does not work for all toolchains on that platform.
Per Honda Shigehiro.

request packet, use pqReadData().  This has the same effect since
conn->ssl isn't set yet and we aren't expecting more than one byte.
The advantage is that we will correctly detect loss-of-connection
instead of going into an infinite loop.  Per report from Hannu Krosing.

discussion on pgsql-hackers-win32 list.  Documentation still needs to
be tweaked --- I'm not sure how to refer to the APPDATA folder in
user documentation.

consistent.  On Unix we now always consult getpwuid(); $HOME isn't used
at all.  On Windows the code currently consults $USERPROFILE, or $HOME
if that's not defined, but I expect this will change as soon as the win32
hackers come to a consensus.  Nothing done yet about changing the file
names used underneath $USERPROFILE.

subroutine that can hide platform dependencies.  The WIN32 path is still
a stub, but I await a fix from one of the win32 hackers.
Also clean up unnecessary #ifdef WIN32 ugliness in a couple of places.

Michael Fuhr.

share lock on a buffer being written out before releasing BufMgrLock in
the BufferAlloc code path; if we do it later we might block on someone
who's re-pinned the buffer.  I believe this is only an issue for BufferAlloc
and not the other places that call FlushBuffer.  BufferSync must continue
to do it the old way since it may well be trying to write buffers that
other backends have pinned; but it should not be holding any conflicting
locks.  FlushRelationBuffers is okay since it's got exclusive lock at the
relation level.

the src/tools/copyright script.

should have been caught by the src/tools/copyright script ... why
weren't they?

Tag appropriate files for rc3

Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to
extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything
where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the
generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only
picked up the right entries ...

to shared memory as soon as possible, ie, right after read_backend_variables.
The effective difference from the original code is that this happens
before instead of after read_nondefault_variables(), which loads GUC
information and is apparently capable of expanding the backend's memory
allocation more than you'd think it should.  This should fix the
failure-to-attach-to-shared-memory reports we've been seeing on Windows.
Also clean up a few bits of unnecessarily grotty EXEC_BACKEND code.

sockets, rather than failing as it formerly did.  Revert the
thereby-obsoleted patch to make psql supply the localhost default.

Per gripe from Josh Berkus.

that is, files are sought in the same directory as the referencing file.
Also allow absolute paths in @file constructs.  Improve documentation
to actually say what is allowed in an included file.

<signal.h>.  Per Andrew Dunstan.

executable file isn't itself a symlink.  We still need to run the
algorithm so that any directory symlinks in the path to the
executable are replaced by a true path.  Noticed this on seeing
pg_config give me a completely wrong answer for --pkglibdir when
I called it through a symlink to the installation bindir.

by Rod Taylor.  The foo_is_visible() functions are relatively slow and
so it pays to check them after checking the name pattern match.

index predicate uses temporary memory for evaluation.  Per example
from Jean-Gerard Pailloncy.

Fixed parsing of defines to make sure they used more than once.