Subject: [HACKERS] linux/alpha patches

These patches lay the groundwork for a Linux/Alpha port.  The port doesn't
actually work unless you tweak the linker to put all the pointers in the
first 32 bits of the address space, but it's at least a start.  It
implements the test-and-set instruction in Alpha assembly, and also fixes
a lot of pointer-to-integer conversions, which is probably good anyway.

In particular, no more compiled-in default for PGDATA or LIBDIR.  Commands
that need them need either invocation options or environment variables.
PGPORT default is hardcoded as 5432, but overrideable with options or
environment variables.

and found out that one of the patches is a show stopper for
compiling under a strict ansi package.

Please make sure the following fix makes it into the 1.02.1
release...

Thanks.

-Kurt

        - src/backend/access
                - no changes
        - src/backend/utils
                - mostly cosmetic changes
                - ESCAPE_PATCH Added
        - src/Makefile.global changes merged

This is a patch to prevent an endless loop occuring in the Postgres backend
when a 'warning' error condition generates another warning error contition
in the handler code.

Submitted by: Chris Dunlop, <chris@onthe.net.au>

submitted by: Bruce Momjian (root@candle.pha.pa.us)