From: Michael Meskes <meskes@usa.net>

docs improvement for ecpg..

From: Michael Meskes <meskes@usa.net>

+ Mon Aug 31 09:40:04 CEST 1998
+
+       - Minor patch to Makefile
+       - Put pgc.l in sync with scan.l
+
+ Tue Sep  1 11:31:05 CEST 1998
+
+       - Fixed another bug in preproc.y
+
+ Thu Sep  3 12:21:16 CEST 1998
+
+       - Sync preproc.y with gram.y
+
+ Mon Sep 14 09:21:02 CEST 1998
+
+       - Sync preproc.y with gram.y yet again
+
+ Thu Sep 17 08:55:33 CEST 1998
+
+       - Synced preproc.y and gram.y one more time
+
+ Thu Sep 17 19:23:24 CEST 1998
+
+       - Added missing ´;´ in preproc.y
+       - Set version to 2.4.2

This patch covers several to-do items that I had for libpgtcl:

* It works under both Tcl 7.6 and Tcl 8.0 now.  (The code claims to
  work under Tcl 7.5 as well, but I have no way to test that ---
  if anyone still cares, please check it with 7.5.)

* pg_listen suppresses extra LISTEN commands and correctly sends an
  UNLISTEN when the last listen request for a relation is cancelled.
  (Note this means it will not work with pre-6.4 backends, but that
  was true already because it depends on the current libpq, which
  only speaks protocol 2.0.)

* Added -error option to pg_result so that there's some way to find
  out what you did wrong ;-)

* Miscellaneous cleanups of code comments and overenthusiastic #includes.

BTW, I bumped the package version number from 1.2 to 1.3.  Is this
premature?  Does someone run around and do that routinely before
each pgsql release?

			regards, tom lane

prompt_for_password code that psql does.  We fixed psql a month or
two back to permit usernames and passwords longer than 8 characters.
I propagated the same fix into pg_dump.

Tom Lane

Magnus Hagander

Remove dependency on a specific Postgres user name in the results
 (Check result against CURRENT_USER with a boolean instead).

Change DEFAULT NULL to send back a NULL pointer
 rather than a string "NULL". This seems to work, where sending
 the string led to type conversion problems (and probably the wrong
 thing anyway).

Check for a constraint if is_sequence is set and omit making
 a UNIQUE index if so, since the primary key will cover that for us.

 rather than func_select_candidate().
Fix oper_select_candidate() to work with a single operator argument.
Repair left operator checking for null return from candidate list.

Forgot to remove README-1ST from the repository ...

tabularized a little bit...

A sort of 'log' of what operating systems are supported, and the date
last tested...

Change order of install...installing interfaces is the last to be done,
as, if not installing as root (which nobody *should* be doing, of course),
the perl install fails, which means that both bin and man directories
are not installed :(

This way, only thing that doesn't get installed is perl interface...

pg_operator problems.

Adds a few new keywords, but all are allowed as column names etc.

compiler to
attempt to compile libpq++.  The patches address the following problems:

1.  In my first pass at changing the libpq++ makefile, I forgot to
include the
    PORTNAME in the Makefile.in file.

2.  The UnixWare 7 C++ compiler did not like the '-K alloca' option in
CXXFLAGS.

Billy G. Allie

implementations of strtol() treat empty strings ("") as invalid arguments
while others convert this (erroneously, IHMO) to zero (0).  Assuming that the
expected behaviour of pg_atoi() is to return 0 if it is passed an empty
string, I am supplying the following patch to explictly check for an empty
string in pg_atoi() and return 0 if the string is empty.  The patch will also
trap a NULL character pointer being passed to pg_atoi() and will use elog() to
print out an error message if the input char pointer is NULL.


Billy G. Allie

1.  The UnixWare tas macro was reformatted (by indent or it like?) which caused
    it to break.  The asm macro construct is very particular about the %mem
    construct -- it has to start in column 1.

2.  When compiling libpq++, g++ was used even if configure found the C++ com-
    piler to be CC.

3.  When compiling libpq++, '-Wno-error' was added to CXXFLAGS, even if the
    compiler wasn't g++.

Billy G. Allie