Initial version.

Fix typos in TZ setting for regression testing and in gmake redirection.

Noted in trying to port to AIX.

Add an entry for the Sparc/Linux port in .similar

Here are the latest changes to the INSTALL instructions.

The main changes are:
  - Step 5, on flex
  - Steps 18 and 19, on regression tests
  - Step 22 c) on starting postmaster on bootup on FreeBSD
  - Added porting notes for SPARC/Linux at end.

If there is time, Thomas should review step 19.

This results from improvements in datetime.c which ensures that the
 conversions are done in local time rather than GMT.

Bring optional new-storage date and time up to date and test.
This new storage format should fix the "Sparc gcc -O2 bug".
(Enable new code with USE_NEW_DATE and USE_NEW_TIME in dt.h)

make doesn't proceed

Fixes:

	Shared objects are not linked correctly

Subject: [PATCHES] Patch for INSTALL

The following patch makes a number of modifications to file INSTALL.
Among other things, it restores some platform specific notes I deleted.
It also no longer requires a separate compile for the regression tests.

Please note that this patch already incorporates the patch Hal Snyder
submitted on Monday.  Do not apply Hal's patch.

 system calls on AIX (and probably other machines too).

       Note: currently, only btree access method supports  multi-
       attribute indices.  Up to 7 keys may be specified.

Subject: [PORTS] minor fix for DGUX port

src/include/port/dgux.h needs the following three lines appended:

#ifndef         BYTE_ORDER
#define         BYTE_ORDER      BIG_ENDIAN
#endif


I believe this to be correct for DG/UX on M88k processors.  I don't have one of
the new Intel-based boxes to check on.

 tests, including new tests.

Add regression tests for circles, line segments, and paths.
Modify regression tests to allow GEQ optimizer (order results).

Include some additional path functions which were coded but omitted here.
Add translation and rotation/scaling operators for some geometric types.
Fix bugs in some geometry comparison operator declarations.

Pass an additional argument for date/time formatting to better handle timezones.

Add type conversion functions for floating point numbers.
Check for zero in unary minus floating point code (IEEE allows an
 explicit negative zero which looks ugly in a query result!).
Ensure circle type has non-negative radius.

manual intervention required :)

Subject: [PATCHES] Documentation update

This patch updates some of the documentation that comes with the
distribution.  The following files are updated:
        COPYRIGHT
        README
        doc/README.flex
        doc/README.support
        doc/bug.template

Subject: [PATCHES] libpq patch

Hi,

here is a small patch which fixes two problems:

1. libpq/libpq-fe.h:

somehow disappeared the line

#define DefaultOption ""

now compilation stops with an error complainig an
unknown DefaultOption (970508).


2. Same patch as I sent already twice, but it never made it
  into the source tree:  there is no default value for
  AuthType and Password. This way any libpq-application
  (i.e. perl-scripts) which use the function PQconnectdb
  will break with PostgreSQL-6.1. The patch simply uses
  an empty string as default value.