bunch of old or poorly-worded documentation.

- Fix handling of --tables=* (multiple tables never worked properly, AFAICT)
- strdup() the current user in DB routines
- Check results of IO routines more carefully.
- Check results of PQ routines more carefully.

Have not fixed index output yet.

Wish they were all this easy ...

commit Oleg and Teodor's RD-tree implementation ... this provides the
regression tests for the GiST changes ... this should be integrated into
the regular regression tests similar to Vadim's SPI contrib stuff ...

New feature:
   1. Support of variable size keys - new algorithm of insertion to tree
      (GLI - gist layrered insertion). Previous algorithm was implemented
      as described in paper by Joseph M. Hellerstein et.al
      "Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems".  This (old)
      algorithm was not suitable for variable size keys and could be
      not effective ( walking up-down ) in case of multiple levels split
Bug fixed:
   1. fixed bug in gistPageAddItem - key values were written to disk
      uncompressed. This caused failure if decompression function
      does real job.
   2. NULLs handling - we keep NULLs in tree. Right way is to remove them,
      but we don't know how to inform vacuum about index statistics. This is
      just cosmetic warning message (like in case with R-Tree),
      but I'm not sure how to recognize real problem if we remove NULLs
      and suppress this warning as Tom suggested.
   3. various memory leaks

This work was done by Teodor Sigaev (teodor@stack.net) and
Oleg Bartunov (oleg@sai.msu.su).

reduce HISTORY changes from this list too

remove all the TODO updates, which drops of 12k from the file ...

using cvs2cl.pl, generate a list of changes from beta1->beta3 ...

optimized away completely.

DeadLockCheck().

code would cluster, but table would magically lose its tempness.

(i.e., 7.0.3) of libpostgres.a.  From Jason Tishler <jt@dothill.com>.

entry:

----------------------------
revision 1.2
date: 2000/12/04 01:20:38;  author: tgl;  state: Exp;  lines:
+18 -18
Eliminate some of the more blatant platform-dependencies ... it
builds here now, anyway ...
----------------------------

Which basically changes u_int*_t -> uint*_t, so now it does not
compile neither under Debian 2.2 nor under NetBSD 1.5 which
is platform independent<B8> all right.  Also it replaces $KAME$
with $Id$ which is Bad Thing. PostgreSQL Id should be added as a
separate line so the file history could be seen.

So here is patch:

* changes uint*_t -> uint*.  I guess that was the original
  intention
* adds uint64 type to include/c.h because its needed
  [somebody should check if I did it right]
* adds back KAME Id, because KAME is the master repository
* removes stupid c++ comments in pgcrypto.c
* removes <sys/types.h> from the code, its not needed

--
marko

Marko Kreen

It adds information about SQL JOIN that is implemented in 7.1.

--
-------- Robert B. Easter

EXECUTE.

--
-------- Robert B. Easter

find it ambiguous.  I propose something along the lines of the
following patch to clarify it.  Thanks.

(Alternatively, perhaps the code could maintain a count of nested
calls to SPI_connect/SPI_finish.  But I didn't try to write that
patch.)

Ian Lance Taylor

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 ...

Chih-Chang Hsieh <cch@cc.kmu.edu.tw>, written in traditional Chinese
(Big5).

   - no more elog(STOP) in StartupXLOG();
   - both checkpoint' undo & redo are used to define
     oldest on-line log file.
2. Ability to pre-allocate a few log files at checkpoint time
   (wal_files option). Off by default.

as both a GROUP BY item and an output expression, the top-level Group
node should just copy up the evaluated expression value from its input,
rather than re-evaluating the expression.  Aside from any performance
benefit this might offer, this avoids a crash when there is a sub-SELECT
in said expression.

were never yet mentioned anywhere in our documentation.  Improve
explanations of the other system attributes, too.

the output of UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT.