Commit 0b3214ac authored by Thomas G. Lockhart's avatar Thomas G. Lockhart

Add mention of join syntax to release notes, and reformat a few lines.

Update porting info. Still need a lot of platforms tested.
Fix small errors in markup.
parent 98069f2a
......@@ -892,10 +892,9 @@
<listitem>
<para>
<entry>9</entry>
<entry>value with the specified number of digits, and if digit is
not available use blank space</entry>
</row>
<literal>9</literal> specifies a value with the same number of
digits as there are <literal>9</literal>s. If a digit is
not available use blank space.
</para>
</listitem>
......
......@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ For a complete list of options, type:
installed into the usual place for Perl modules (typically under
<filename>/usr/lib/perl</filename>), so you must have root access
to perform the installation step. (It is often easiest to leave out
<term>--with-perl</term> initially, and then build and install the
<option>--with-perl</option> initially, and then build and install the
Perl interface after completing the installation of PostgreSQL
itself.)
</para>
......
......@@ -43,14 +43,6 @@
<entry>1999-05-25</entry>
<entry>(<ulink url="mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us">Bruce Momjian</ulink></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>FreeBSD 2.2.x-4.0</entry>
<entry>x86</entry>
<entry>v6.5</entry>
<entry>1999-05-25</entry>
<entry>(<ulink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ulink>,
<ulink url="mailto:scrappy@hub.org">Marc Fournier</ulink>)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>DGUX 5.4R4.11</entry>
<entry>m88k</entry>
......@@ -67,6 +59,14 @@
<entry>
(<ulink url="mailto:pjlobo@euitt.upm.es">Pedro J. Lobo</ulink>)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>FreeBSD 2.2.x-4.0</entry>
<entry>x86</entry>
<entry>v6.5</entry>
<entry>1999-05-25</entry>
<entry>(<ulink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ulink>,
<ulink url="mailto:scrappy@hub.org">Marc Fournier</ulink>)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>HPUX</entry>
<entry>PA-RISC</entry>
......@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
-->
</row>
<row>
<entry>linux 2.0.x</entry>
<entry>Linux 2.0.x</entry>
<entry>Alpha</entry>
<entry>v6.5.3</entry>
<entry>1999-11-05</entry>
......@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
(<ulink url="mailto:pgsql@rkirkpat.net">Ryan Kirkpatrick</ulink>)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>linux 2.2.x</entry>
<entry>Linux 2.2.x</entry>
<entry>arm41</entry>
<entry>v6.5.3</entry>
<entry>1999-11-05</entry>
......@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
separately.
- thomas 1999-11-06
<row>
<entry>linux 2.0.x/libc5</entry>
<entry>Linux 2.0.x/libc5</entry>
<entry>x86</entry>
<entry>v6.4</entry>
<entry>1998-10-27</entry>
......@@ -121,14 +121,14 @@
-->
<row>
<entry>linux 2.2.x/glibc2</entry>
<entry>Linux 2.2.x/glibc2</entry>
<entry>x86</entry>
<entry>v6.5.3</entry>
<entry>1999-11-05</entry>
<entry>v7.0</entry>
<entry>2000-03-26</entry>
<entry>(<ulink url="mailto:lamar.owen@wgcr.org">Lamar Owens</ulink>)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>linux 2.0.x</entry>
<entry>Linux 2.0.x</entry>
<entry>MIPS</entry>
<entry>v6.4</entry>
<entry>1998-12-16</entry>
......@@ -136,28 +136,20 @@
(<ulink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ulink>)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>linux 2.0.x</entry>
<entry>Linux 2.0.x</entry>
<entry>Sparc</entry>
<entry>v6.4</entry>
<entry>1998-10-25</entry>
<entry>(<ulink url="mailto:szybist@boxhill.com">Tom Szybist</ulink>)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>linuxPPC 2.1.24</entry>
<entry>LinuxPPC R4 2.2.1/libc5</entry>
<entry>PPC603e</entry>
<entry>v6.4</entry>
<entry>1998-10-26</entry>
<entry>v7.0</entry>
<entry>2000-03-26</entry>
<entry>Powerbook 2400c
(<ulink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ulink>)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>mklinux DR3</entry>
<entry>PPC750</entry>
<entry>v6.4</entry>
<entry>1998-09-16</entry>
<entry>PowerMac 7600
(<ulink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ulink>)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>NetBSD</entry>
<entry>arm32</entry>
......@@ -166,11 +158,12 @@
<entry>(<ulink url="mailto:a.mcmurry1@physics.oxford.ac.uk">Andrew McMurry</ulink>)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>NetBSD 1.3.2</entry>
<entry>NetBSD 1.4U</entry>
<entry>x86</entry>
<entry>v6.4</entry>
<entry>1998-10-25</entry>
<entry>(<ulink url="mailto:brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu">Brook Milligan</ulink>)</entry>
<entry>v7.0</entry>
<entry>2000-03-26</entry>
<entry>(<ulink url="mailto:prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk">Patrick
Welche</ulink>)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>NetBSD</entry>
......@@ -204,7 +197,7 @@
<entry>(<ulink url="mailto:tih@hamartun.priv.no">Tom I Helbekkmo</ulink>)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>QNX-4.25</entry>
<entry>QNX 4.25</entry>
<entry>x86</entry>
<entry>v6.5.2</entry>
<entry>1999-11-08</entry>
......@@ -277,11 +270,6 @@
</table>
</para>
<para>
Platforms listed for v6.3.x and v6.4.x should also work with v6.5,
but we did not receive explicit confirmation of such at the time this
list was compiled.
</para>
<note>
<para>
For <productname>Windows NT</productname>,
......@@ -294,13 +282,55 @@
<sect1>
<title>Unsupported Platforms</title>
<para>
Platforms listed for v6.3.x-v6.5.x should also work with v7.0,
but we did not receive explicit confirmation of such at the time this
list was compiled.
</para>
<para>
At the time of publication, the following platforms have been tested:
<table tocentry="1">
<title>Obsolete Platforms</title>
<tgroup cols="4">
<thead>
<row>
<entry><acronym>OS</acronym></entry>
<entry>Processor</entry>
<entry>Version</entry>
<entry>Reported</entry>
<entry>Remarks</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>mklinux DR3</entry>
<entry>PPC750</entry>
<entry>v6.4</entry>
<entry>1998-09-16</entry>
<entry>PowerMac 7600; mklinux merged with LinuxPPC
(<ulink url="mailto:t-ishii@sra.co.jp">Tatsuo Ishii</ulink>)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Ultrix</entry>
<entry>MIPS,VAX?</entry>
<entry>v6.x</entry>
<entry>1998-03-01</entry>
<entry>No recent reports; obsolete?</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</para>
<para>
There are a few platforms which have been attempted and which have been
reported to not work with the standard distribution.
Others listed here do not provide sufficient library support for an attempt.
<table tocentry="1">
<title>Possibly Incompatible Platforms</title>
<title>Incompatible Platforms</title>
<titleabbrev>Incompatibles</titleabbrev>
<tgroup cols="4">
<thead>
......@@ -336,16 +366,6 @@
<entry>Confirmed with patching; v6.4.x will need TAS spinlock code
(<ulink url="mailto:dlw@seavme.xroads.com">Doug Winterburn</ulink>)</entry>
</row>
<!--
Obsolete afaik. Let's stop mentioning it. - thomas 1999-11-06
<row>
<entry>Ultrix</entry>
<entry>MIPS,VAX?</entry>
<entry>v6.x</entry>
<entry>1998-03-01</entry>
<entry>No recent reports; obsolete?</entry>
</row>
-->
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
......@@ -357,7 +377,7 @@ Obsolete afaik. Let's stop mentioning it. - thomas 1999-11-06
<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
Local variables:
mode: sgml
mode:sgml
sgml-omittag:nil
sgml-shorttag:t
sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
......@@ -367,7 +387,7 @@ sgml-indent-data:t
sgml-parent-document:nil
sgml-default-dtd-file:"./reference.ced"
sgml-exposed-tags:nil
sgml-local-catalogs:"/usr/lib/sgml/catalog"
sgml-local-catalogs:("/usr/lib/sgml/catalog")
sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
End:
-->
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