> * Allow building with directories containing spaces

the src/tools/copyright script.

should have been caught by the src/tools/copyright script ... why
weren't they?

< 	  the Win32 wcscoll() can be used.
> 	  the Win32 wcscoll() can be used, and perhaps other functions
> 	  like towupper().

< 	  the Win32 strcoll() can be used.
> 	  the Win32 wcscoll() can be used.

<         o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which which PostgreSQL supports
>         o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which PostgreSQL supports
914a915,917
>
> 	  To fix UTF8, the data needs to be converted to UTF16 and then
> 	  the Win32 strcoll() can be used.

forgot to autoconf after tag'ng configure.in with rc3

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 ...

to put more widely useful info before less widely useful info.

overlooked in 7.3 updates.  Not a critical fix but avoids a notice when
the resulting SQL script is executed.

to shared memory as soon as possible, ie, right after read_backend_variables.
The effective difference from the original code is that this happens
before instead of after read_nondefault_variables(), which loads GUC
information and is apparently capable of expanding the backend's memory
allocation more than you'd think it should.  This should fix the
failure-to-attach-to-shared-memory reports we've been seeing on Windows.
Also clean up a few bits of unnecessarily grotty EXEC_BACKEND code.

sockets, rather than failing as it formerly did.  Revert the
thereby-obsoleted patch to make psql supply the localhost default.

Per John Smith.

> * Improve the background writer
>
>   Allow the background writer to more efficiently write dirty buffers
>   from the end of the LRU cache and use a clock sweep algorithm to
>   write other dirty buffers to reduced checkpoint I/O

Per gripe from Josh Berkus.

where it doesn't belong, and put it in the psql reference page.

that is, files are sought in the same directory as the referencing file.
Also allow absolute paths in @file constructs.  Improve documentation
to actually say what is allowed in an included file.

<signal.h>.  Per Andrew Dunstan.

Update FAQ with new URL's for site.

executable file isn't itself a symlink.  We still need to run the
algorithm so that any directory symlinks in the path to the
executable are replaced by a true path.  Noticed this on seeing
pg_config give me a completely wrong answer for --pkglibdir when
I called it through a symlink to the installation bindir.