the disbursion is 0.5, not something small.

and make scalarltsel a little more forgiving at the boundaries of the
known range of a column value.

planner now produces two cost numbers instead of one.

doesn't seem to be used at the moment, but as long as I'm looking at it...

accesses versus sequential accesses, a (very crude) estimate of the
effects of caching on random page accesses, and cost to evaluate WHERE-
clause expressions.  Export critical parameters for this model as SET
variables.  Also, create SET variables for the planner's enable flags
(enable_seqscan, enable_indexscan, etc) so that these can be controlled
more conveniently than via PGOPTIONS.

Planner now estimates both startup cost (cost before retrieving
first tuple) and total cost of each path, so it can optimize queries
with LIMIT on a reasonable basis by interpolating between these costs.
Same facility is a win for EXISTS(...) subqueries and some other cases.

Redesign pathkey representation to achieve a major speedup in planning
(I saw as much as 5X on a 10-way join); also minor changes in planner
to reduce memory consumption by recycling discarded Path nodes and
not constructing unnecessary lists.

Minor cleanups to display more-plausible costs in some cases in
EXPLAIN output.

Initdb forced by change in interface to index cost estimation
functions.

results of constraints regress test.

Renormalize query.sgml and fix indenting.

  SELECT a FROM t1 tx (a);
Allow join syntax, including queries like
  SELECT * FROM t1 NATURAL JOIN t2;
Update RTE structure to hold column aliases in an Attr structure.

Add "SESSION_USER" as SQL92 keyword; equivalent to CURRENT_USER for now.
Implement column aliases (aka correlation names) and more join syntax.
Fix up indenting and tabbing.

Still needs to be done for the general case:
 "tz+/-#" where tz is a 3 char string.
This will probably involve moving code around to other places.

where else to mail it. I am the maintainer of unixODBC, and we have a
set of code in our project that started life as the Postgres windows
ODBC driver, which has been ported back to unix. Anyway I have just
fixed a memory leak in the driver, and I cant see any mention of the fix
being done in the main Postgres code, so I thougth I would let you know.

Its in the statement.c module, after the COMMIT statement has been
executed in SC_Execute, the code was

Nick Gorham

        this is an old patch which I have already submitted and never seen
        in the sources. It corrects the datatype oids used in some iterator
        functions. This bug has been reported to me by many other people.

contrib-datetime.patch

        some code contributed by Reiner Dassing <dassing@wettzell.ifag.de>

contrib-makefiles.patch

        fixes all my contrib makefiles which don't work with some compilers,
        as reported to me by another user.

contrib-miscutil.patch

        an old patch for one of my old contribs.

contrib-string.patch

        a small change to the c-like text output functions. Now the '{'
        is escaped only at the beginning of the string to distinguish it
        from arrays, and the '}' is no more escaped.

elog-lineno.patch

        adds the current lineno of CopyFrom to elog messages. This is very
        useful when you load a 1 million tuples table from an external file
        and there is a bad value somehere. Currently you get an error message
        but you can't know where is the bad data. The patch uses a variable
        which was declared static in copy.c. The variable is now exported
        and initialized to 0. It is always cleared at the end of the copy
        or at the first elog message or when the copy is canceled.
        I know this is very ugly but I can't find any better way of knowing
        where the copy fails and I have this problem quite often.

plperl-makefile.patch

        fixes a typo in a makefile, but the error must be elsewhere because
        it is a file generated automatically. Please have a look.

tprintf-timestamp.patch

        restores the original 2-digit year format, assuming that the two
        century digits don't carry much information and that '000202' is
        easier to read than 20000202. Being only a log file it shouldn't
        break anything.

Please apply the patches before the next scheduled code freeze.

I also noticed that some of the contribs don't compile correcly. Should we
ask people to fix their code or rename their makefiles so that they are
ignored by the top makefile?

--
Massimo Dal Zotto

    a switch statement that has an empty default label.  A label of a
    switch statement must be followed by a statement (or a label which
    is followed by a statement (or a label which ...)).

3.  Files include stringinfo.h failed to compile.  The macro,
    'appendStringInfoCharMacro' is implemented with a '?:' operation
    that returns a void expression for the true part and a char expresion
    for the false part.  Both the true and false parts of the '?:' oper-
    ator must return the same type.

Billy G. Allie

Changed EXIT_ON_ERROR to ON_ERROR_STOP in psql

 Don Baccus

directory.

I think this patch to the docs should be what is needed.

 Magnus Hagander

Mark Hollomon