Cleanups for 6.2.1.

HISTORY

+PostgreSQL 6.2.1                 Fri Oct 17 00:01:27 EDT 1997
+-------------------------------------------------------------
+
+This release does NOT require a dump/restore for those running 6.2.
+Please see the appropriate /migration file for more information.
+
+Changes in this release
+-----------------------
+Allow TIME and TYPE column names(Thomas)
+Allow larger range of true/false as boolean values(Thomas)
+Support output of "now" and "current"(Thomas)
+Handle DEFAULT with INSERT of NULL properly(Vadim)
+fix for buffer cache reference count problem(Vadim)
+Allow strings to span lines, like ANSI(Thomas)
+Fix for backward ORDER BY(Vadim)
+Fix avg(cash) computation(Thomas)
+
+
 PostgreSQL 6.2               Thu Oct 02 12:53:46 EDT 1997
 -------------------------------------------------------------
 

INSTALL

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ POSTGRESQL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
 Copyright (c) 1997 Regents of  the University of California
 
 This is file /usr/src/pgsql/INSTALL.  It contains notes on how to install
-PostgreSQL v6.2.  Up to date information on PostgreSQL may be found at
+PostgreSQL v6.2.1.  Up to date information on PostgreSQL may be found at
 http://www.postgresql.org.
 
 PostgreSQL is an RDBMS database server.  It is not completely ANSI SQL
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ PostgreSQL:
         rm -rf /usr/local/pgsql_6_0
         # Also delete old database directory tree if it is not in
         #  /usr/local/pgsql_6_0/data
-        rm ~/postgresql-v6.2.tar.gz
+        rm ~/postgresql-v6.2.1.tar.gz
 
  26) You will probably want to print out the documentation.  Here is how
      you might do it if you have Ghostscript on your system and are
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ PostgreSQL:
      supported platforms.  We therefore ask you to let us know if you did
      or did not get PostgreSQL to work on you system.  Please send a
      mail message to pgsql-ports@postgresql.org telling us the following:
-       - The version of PostgreSQL (v6.2, 6.1.1, beta 970703, etc.).
+       - The version of PostgreSQL (v6.2.1, 6.1.1, beta 970703, etc.).
        - Your operating system (i.e. RedHat v4.0 Linux v2.0.26).
        - Your hardware (SPARC, i486, etc.).
        - Did you compile, install and run the regression tests cleanly?

README

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 PostgreSQL Data Base Management System (formerly known as Postgres, then
 as Postgres95).
   
-This directory contains the version 6.2 release of the PostgreSQL
+This directory contains the version 6.2.1 release of the PostgreSQL
 database server.  The server is not ANSI SQL compliant, but it gets
 closer with every release.  After you unzip and untar the distribution
 file, look at file INSTALL for the installation notes and file HISTORY

doc/FAQ

 
                 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
                                        
-   Last updated: Thu Oct  2 14:08:20 EDT 1997
-   Version: 6.2
+   Last updated: Wed Oct 15 23:16:48 EDT 1997
+   Version: 6.2.1
    
    Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us)
    
@@ -241,9 +241,9 @@ Section 1: General Questions
      
   1.6) Latest release of PostgreSQL
   
-   The latest release of PostgreSQL is version 6.2, which was released
-   on October 2, 1997. For information about what is new in 6.2, see our
-   TODO list on our WWW page.
+   The latest release of PostgreSQL is version 6.2.1, which was released
+   on October 17th, 1997. For information about what is new in 6.2.1, see
+   our TODO list on our WWW page.
    
   1.7) Is there a commercial version of PostgreSQL?
   
@@ -279,18 +279,14 @@ Section 1: General Questions
   
    PostgreSQL v1.09 is compatible with databases created with v1.01.
    
-   Upgrading to 6.1 requires a dump and restore from previous releases.
+   Upgrading to 6.2.1 from pre-6.2 requires a dump and restore.
    
-   Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.1.1 requires running configure, compile of the
-   new release, recompile of all your custom applications to use the new
-   libpq, and then an install while the postmaster is temporarily
-   stopped.
-   
-   Upgrading to 6.2 requires a dump and restore from previous releases.
+   Upgrading to 6.2.1 from 6.2 does not require a dump, but see the
+   appropriate /migration file in the distribution.
    
    Those ugrading from versions earlier than 1.09 must upgrade to 1.09
    first without a dump/reload, then dump the data from 1.09, and then
-   load it into 6.2.
+   load it into 6.2.1.
    
   1.11) Are there ODBC drivers for PostgreSQL?
   
@@ -645,8 +641,8 @@ BYTEA           bytea           variable-length array of bytes
    could select the same new id. This statement should be performed
    within a transaction.
    
-   Yet another way is to use general trigger function autoinc()
-   from contrib/spi/autoinc.c
+   Yet another way is to use general trigger function autoinc() from
+   contrib/spi/autoinc.c.
    
   3.16) What are the pg_psort.XXX files in my database directory?
   

doc/bug.template

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ System Configuration
 
   Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) 	:
 
-  PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.2)  :   PostgreSQL-6.2
+  PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.2.1):   PostgreSQL-6.2.1
 
   Compiler used (example:  gcc 2.7.2)		:
 

src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c,v 1.49 1997/10/02 13:57:05 vadim Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c,v 1.50 1997/10/16 04:14:00 momjian Exp $
  *
  * Modifications - 6/10/96 - dave@bensoft.com - version 1.13.dhb
  *
@@ -1976,7 +1976,7 @@ dumpOprs(FILE *fout, OprInfo *oprinfo, int numOperators,
 	char		rightarg[MAXQUERYLEN];
 	char		commutator[MAXQUERYLEN];
 	char		negator[MAXQUERYLEN];
-	char		restrict[MAXQUERYLEN];
+	char		restrictor[MAXQUERYLEN];
 	char		join[MAXQUERYLEN];
 	char		sortop[MAXQUERYLEN];
 
@@ -2026,9 +2026,9 @@ dumpOprs(FILE *fout, OprInfo *oprinfo, int numOperators,
 			  findOprByOid(oprinfo, numOperators, oprinfo[i].oprnegate));
 
 		if (strcmp(oprinfo[i].oprrest, "-") == 0)
-			restrict[0] = '\0';
+			restrictor[0] = '\0';
 		else
-			sprintf(restrict, ", RESTRICT = %s ", oprinfo[i].oprrest);
+			sprintf(restrictor, ", RESTRICT = %s ", oprinfo[i].oprrest);
 
 		if (strcmp(oprinfo[i].oprjoin, "-") == 0)
 			join[0] = '\0';
@@ -2059,7 +2059,7 @@ dumpOprs(FILE *fout, OprInfo *oprinfo, int numOperators,
 				rightarg,
 				commutator,
 				negator,
-				restrict,
+				restrictor,
 				(strcmp(oprinfo[i].oprcanhash, "t")) ? ", HASHES" : "",
 				join,
 				sortop);

src/include/version.h

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *	  this file contains the interface to version.c.
  *	  Also some parameters.
  *
- * $Id: version.h,v 1.5 1997/10/03 17:31:29 scrappy Exp $
+ * $Id: version.h,v 1.6 1997/10/16 04:14:06 momjian Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ void
 			SetPgVersion(const char *path, char **reason_p);
 
 #define PG_RELEASE		6
-#define PG_VERSION		2
+#define PG_VERSION		1
 #define PG_VERFILE		"PG_VERSION"
 
 #endif

src/man/libpq.3

 .\" This is -*-nroff-*-
 .\" XXX standard disclaimer belongs here....
-.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/libpq.3,v 1.5 1997/10/01 18:14:53 momjian Exp $
+.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/libpq.3,v 1.6 1997/10/16 04:14:19 momjian Exp $
 .TH LIBPQ INTRO 03/12/94 PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 Libpq is the programmer's interface to Postgres.  Libpq is a set of
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ be used to retrieve the tuples returned by the query.
 
 .B PQntuples
 returns the number of tuples (instances) in the query result, or the
-number of rows affected for queries that do not return a tuples.
+number of rows affected for queries that do not return any tuples.
 
 .nf
 int PQntuples(PGresult *res);

src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES

+INSTALL
+HISTORY
+README
+doc/FAQ, including version number
+doc/Machine-specific FAQ's
+doc/TODO
+doc/bug.template
+include/version.h
+