update to beta5

      STRTOL='strtoul.o' --> STRTOUL='strtoul.o'

waste of cycles on single-CPU machines, and of dubious utility on multi-CPU
machines too.
Tweak s_lock_stuck so that caller can specify timeout interval, and
increase interval before declaring stuck spinlock for buffer locks and XLOG
locks.
On systems that have fdatasync(), use that rather than fsync() to sync WAL
log writes.  Ensure that WAL file is entirely allocated during XLogFileInit.

When no suitable YACC is configured, supply useful informational messages
to users.  (Same way flex has been handled for a while.)

scripts like pgaccess.

has problems when linking with both.

update configure to beta4

Install a ChangeLog file from beta3->beta4

eliminates a raft of portability issues, including whether sys_nerr
exists, whether the platform has any valid negative errnos, etc.  The
downside is minimal: errno shouldn't ever contain an invalid value anyway,
and if it does, reasonably modern versions of strerror will not choke.
This rangecheck idea seemed good at the time, but it's clearly a net loss,
and I apologize to all concerned for having ever put it in.

optimized away completely.

jump version to beta3 ... beta2 was created and pulled due to a couple of
large-ish bugs that Tom and Vadim were able to fix, but to avoid any
confusion, beta2 was removed ... and for tag'ng purposes, beta3 is being
created ...

tag configure as beta2 ..

amounts to checking for -ledit instead of -lreadline.)

Otherwise, build falls over on a machine with a non-devel RPM of libz.

Autoconf manual.  In particular, touching it before creating config.status
is guaranteed to lose.

1. Distinguish cases where a Datum representing a tuple datatype is an OID
from cases where it is a pointer to TupleTableSlot, and make sure we use
the right typlen in each case.
2. Make fetchatt() and related code support 8-byte by-value datatypes on
machines where Datum is 8 bytes.  Centralize knowledge of the available
by-value datatype sizes in two macros in tupmacs.h, so that this will be
easier if we ever have to do it again.

flawed because the timestamp file is already updated when Makefile.global
is remade, and the rule for config.h never gets run.

update VERSION to 7.1beta1..

socket file, in favor of having an ordinary lockfile beside the socket file.
Clean up a few robustness problems in the lockfile code.  If postmaster is
going to reject a connection request based on database state, it will now
tell you so before authentication exchange not after.  (Of course, a failure
after is still possible if conditions change meanwhile, but this makes life
easier for a yet-to-be-written pg_ping utility.)

space as separator again.

compatibility library which contains a 'main' function, which is not good.
If someone really needed it, think of a different plan.

'long long int' portions of ecpg if the type or these functions don't
exist.

but take it as 'int *' instead.

Add real test for whether ld -R works on Unixware.

Rename --enable-uniconv to --enable-unicode-conversion.

Install shlibs mode 755 by default, since 644 causes gratuitous complaints
from ldd et al. on some systems.

to work everywhere.  Also, on FreeBSD you need to set the optreset variable
to 1 before parsing the command line a second time with getopt().

standard installation layout it should be possible to build the HTML
and print documentation without additional manual setup.

says.

included, and then include <strings.h> if so.  Several systems already
needed <strings.h> anyway.  Some new systems that claim to conform to the
Unix 9x "standard" do not declare str[n]casemp() in string.h, and C99
compilers will not like that.

Bruce Hartzler <bruceh@mail.utexas.edu>.  It contains shared library
support, regression test map, and the usual template files.  The dynamic
loader is missing, the spin lock code apparently doesn't assemble due to
syntax problems, and semaphores are to be hoped for from Apple.

--enable-debug and environment variable override.

path into executables and shared libraries (-rpath or -R for most).  Can be
disabled with --disable-rpath, since some binary packaging standards do not
like this option.

waiting for input.  From Pete Forman <gsez020@kryten.bedford.waii.com>.