for haskeytype).  Update GiST contrib modules too.  Add linear-time split
algorithm for R-tree GiST opclass.
From Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev.

following email.

 > > The problem:  When I call getBigDecimal() on a ResultSet, it
 > > sometimes throws an exception:
 > >
 > >   Bad BigDecimal 174.50
 > >     at org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.getBigDecimal(ResultSet.java:373)
 > >     at org.postgresql.jdbc2.ResultSet.getBigDecimal(ResultSet.java:984)
 > >     ...blah blah blah...
 > >   org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Bad BigDecimal 174.50

Barry Lind

so it may be a transit problem.  Also removed the 'txt' suffix
in case that was confusing some transport layer trying to be
too inteligent for our own good.

This may have been because the Array.java class from the
previous patch didn't seem to have made it into the snapshot
build for some reason.  This patch should at least fix that issue.

Greg Zoller

discussion in pgsql-general.

> It seems that win9x doesn't have the "netmsg.dll" so it defaults to "normal"
> FormatMessage.
> I wonder if one could load wsock32.dll or winsock.dll on those systems
> instead of netmsg.dll.
>
> Mikhail, could you please test this code on your nt4 system?
> Could someone else test this code on a win98/95 system?
>
> It works on win2k over here.

It works on win2k here too but not on win98/95 or winNT.
Anyway, attached is the patch which uses Magnus's my_sock_strerror
function (renamed to winsock_strerror). The only difference is that
I put the code to load and unload netmsg.dll in the libpqdll.c
(is this OK Magnus?).

Mikhail Terekhov

pgsql-hackers.  pg_opclass now has a row for each opclass supported by each
index AM, not a row for each opclass name.  This allows pg_opclass to show
directly whether an AM supports an opclass, and furthermore makes it possible
to store additional information about an opclass that might be AM-dependent.
pg_opclass and pg_amop now store "lossy" and "haskeytype" information that we
previously expected the user to remember to provide in CREATE INDEX commands.
Lossiness is no longer an index-level property, but is associated with the
use of a particular operator in a particular index opclass.

Along the way, IndexSupportInitialize now uses the syscaches to retrieve
pg_amop and pg_amproc entries.  I find this reduces backend launch time by
about ten percent, at the cost of a couple more special cases in catcache.c's
IndexScanOK.

Initial work by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, further hacking by Tom Lane.

initdb forced.

Fix '\\' handling for bytea type.

* remove support for encode() as it is in main tree now
* remove krb5.c
* new 'PX library' architecture
* remove BSD license from my code to let the general
  PostgreSQL one to apply
* md5, sha1: ANSIfy, use const where appropriate
* various other formatting and clarity changes
* hmac()
* UN*X-like crypt() - system or internal crypt
* Internal crypt: DES, Extended DES, MD5, Blowfish
  crypt-des.c, crypt-md5.c from FreeBSD
  crypt-blowfish.c from Solar Designer
* gen_salt() for crypt() -  Blowfish, MD5, DES, Extended DES
* encrypt(), decrypt(), encrypt_iv(), decrypt_iv()
* Cipher support in mhash.c, openssl.c
* internal: Blowfish, Rijndael-128 ciphers
* blf.[ch], rijndael.[ch] from OpenBSD
* there will be generated file rijndael-tbl.inc.

Marko Kreen

parser interface code. It now uses libxml2 instead of expat (though I've
left the old code in the tarball). This means *proper* XPath support, and
the provided function allows you to wrap your result set in XML tags to
produce a new XML document.

John Gray

> Shouldn't
>
>    throw new PSQLException("metadata unavailable");
>
> in getTypeInfo() be something like:
>
>    throw new PSQLException("postgresql.meta.unavailable");
>
> to allow translation of the error message in the
> errors*.properties files?

You're right. Attached is an updated patch that also includes a message
in error.properties. I've attempted a French message in
errors_fr.properties but beware that I haven't written French in quite a
few years. Don't know Italian, German, or Dutch so I can't do those.

Liam Stewart

- Include some patches by Christof Petig <christof.petig@wtal.de>.

   SQLxxxx() to PGAPI_xxxx().
2) Handle an escaped date/time format as a parameter.
3) Improve the tuple allocation a little.
4) The preparation of ODBC 3.0 a little.
5) Updatable cursors(may be deprecated before long).

This is mainly to help developers to understand the code.

reflect a mail thread that discussed our conformance (or lack thereof)
to the SQL92 spec.

Barry Lind

attempt at a patch to 7.1.2 to support Array.

[I think I've solved the mangled patch problem.  Hotmail seems to
try to format the text file, so gzipping it should solve this
problem.]

In this patch I've incorporated Barry's feedback.  Specifically:

1)  OIDs are no longer hard-coded into Array.java.  In order to
    support this change I added a getOID(String) method to Field.java
    which receives a PostgreSQL field type and returns a value from
    java.sql.Types.  I couldn't get away from using OIDs altogether
    because the JDBC spec for Array specifies that some methods return
    a ResultSet.  This requires I construct Field objects,
    which means I need OIDs.  At least this approach doesn't hard
    code these values.  A Hashtable cache has been added to Field
    so that an SQL lookup isn't necessary (following the model already
    in Field.java).

2)  Rewired the base formatting code in ResultSet.java to use 'to'
    methods, which are then exposed as static methods in ResultSet.
    These methods are used in Array to format the data without
    duplications in the code.

3)  Artifact call to first() in ResultSet.getArray() removed.

Greg Zoller

includes two changes in the JDBC driver:

1) When connected to a backend >= 7.2: use obj_description() and
col_description() instead of direct access to pg_description.

2) In DatabaseMetaData.getTables()/getColumns()/getProcedures():
when there is no comment on the object, return null in the
REMARKS column of the ResultSet, instead of the default string
"no remarks".

Change 2 first appeared as a side-effect of change 1, but it is
actually more compliant with the JDBC spec: "String object
containing an explanatory comment on the table/column/procedure,
which may be null". The default string "no remarks" was strictly
speaking incorrect, as it could not be distinguished from a real
user comment "no remarks". So I removed the default string
completely.

Change 2 might break existing code that doesn't follow the JDBC
spec and isn't prepared to handle a null in the REMARKS column
of getTables()/getColumns()/getProcedures.

Patch tested with jdbc2 against both a 7.1 and a CVS tip
backend. I did not have a jdbc1 environment to build and test
with, but since the touched code is identical in jdbc1 and jdbc2
I don't foresee any problems.

Regards,
Ren? Pijlman