tag it all beta2 ...

on Windows is now a feature, not a bug.

fix up a few references to 8.1devel -> 8.1beta1

Windows. The test itself is bypassed in configure as discussed, and
libpq has been updated appropriately to allow it to build in thread-safe
mode.

Dave Page

to 'Size' (that is, size_t), and install overflow detection checks in it.
This allows us to remove the former arbitrary restrictions on NBuffers
etc.  It won't make any difference in a 32-bit machine, but in a 64-bit
machine you could theoretically have terabytes of shared buffers.
(How efficiently we could manage 'em remains to be seen.)  Similarly,
num_temp_buffers, work_mem, and maintenance_work_mem can be set above
2Gb on a 64-bit machine.  Original patch from Koichi Suzuki, additional
work by moi.

of special case for Windows port.  Put a PG_TRY around most of createdb()
to ensure that we remove copied subdirectories on failure, even if the
failure happens while creating the pg_database row.  (I think this explains
Oliver Siegmar's recent report.)  Having done that, there's no need for
the fragile assumption that copydir() mustn't ereport(ERROR), so simplify
its API.  Eliminate the old code that used system("cp ...") to copy
subdirectories, in favor of using copydir() on all platforms.  This not
only should allow much better error reporting, but allows us to fsync
the created files before trusting that the copy has succeeded.

problems:

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Support cross compilation by compiling "zic" with a native compiler.
This relies on the output of zic being platform independent, but that is
currently the case.

is used in the toplevel configure.  Per Marko Kreen.

relies on the output of zic being platform independent, but that is
currently the case.

some security issues, and upstream has declared it "dead". Patch from
Magnus Hagander, minor editorialization from Neil Conway.

Allow kerberos name and username case sensitivity to be specified from
postgresql.conf.

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Here's an updated version of the patch, with the following changes:

1) No longer uses "service name" as "application version". It's instead
hardcoded as "postgres". It could be argued that this part should be
backpatched to 8.0, but it doesn't make a big difference until you can
start changing it with GUC / connection parameters. This change only
affects kerberos 5, not 4.

2) Now downcases kerberos usernames when the client is running on win32.

3) Adds guc option for "krb_caseins_users" to make the server ignore
case mismatch which is required by some KDCs such as Active Directory.
Off by default, per discussion with Tom. This change only affects
kerberos 5, not 4.

4) Updated so it doesn't conflict with the rendevouz/bonjour patch
already in ;-)

Magnus Hagander

interaction between ld, readline, termcap, and psql. The symptom is psql
failing with this error on startup:

    symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libreadline.so.4: undefined symbol: BC

I'm still trying to find the best way to solve this, but in the mean time
I'm reverting the patch in order to unbreak FC3.

understands arg control, so we don't need our own.  In fact, it
also uses macros that conflict with ours, so we _can't_ use
our own.

executable against the maximal set of libraries it might need. So for
example, if one executable requires `libreadline', all executables are
linked against it.

The easiest fix is to make use of GNU ld's --as-needed flag, which
ignores linker arguments that are not actually needed by the specified
object files. The attached patch modifies configure to check for this
flag (when using GNU ld), and if ld supports it, adds the flag to
LDFLAGS (we need to do the check since only relatively recent versions
of GNU ld support this capability). Currently only GNU ld is supported;
I'm not aware of any other linkers that support this functionality.

should work on Windows now.  Also, rename set_noblock to pg_set_noblock;
since it is included in libpq, the former name polluted application
namespace.

implementation doesn't export out via libpq and get used by a user
application.

its output can be used to select the proper printf outputs.

verified that AC_TRY_RUN works.

+ # Determine if printf supports %1$ argument selection, e.g. %5$ selects
+ # the fifth argument after the printf print string.
+ # This is not in the C99 standard, but in the Single Unix Specification (SUS).
+ # It is used in our langauge translation strings.

Nicolai Tufar with configure changes by Bruce.

its that time ... tag it for release

up release to rc5

upgrade tags to rc4

the src/tools/copyright script.

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 ...

tag files for rc2

its presence.  This amounts to desupporting Kerberos 5 releases 1.0.*,
which is small loss, and simplifies use of our Kerberos code on platforms
with Red-Hat-style include file layouts.  Per gripe from John Gray and
followup discussion.

gripe from John Gray.  Also fix thinko in pltcl Makefile: if a special
Tcl include directory is specified, that ought to be searched first.

tag configure for rc1 ..

very good practice IMHO, but apparently some people think so.

calling applications.  This is done by blocking sigpipe in the libpq
thread and using sigpending/sigwait to possibily discard any sigpipe we
generated.

reliably (ie, regardless of which libraries they depend on).  Also
make sure that we don't select headers that obviously belong to the
wrong one of the two libraries.  This was discussed back around 4-Sep
but seems to have slipped through the cracks.  The header selection
could be checked more closely, perhaps, but let's see if this is good
enough.