Try to generalize the gzip/tar usage for more portability.

code that I had assumed was working had not been tested.  Naturally,
it was broken ...

Tom Lane

1. Rewritten libpq to allow asynchronous clients.

2. Implemented client side of cancel protocol in library,
   and patched psql.c to send a cancel request upon SIGINT.  The
   backend doesn't notice it yet :-(

3. Implemented 'Z' protocol message addition and renaming of
   copy in/out start messages.  These are implemented conditionally,
   ie, the client protocol version is checked; so the code should
   still work with 1.0 clients.

4. Revised protocol and libpq sgml documents (don't have an SGML
   compiler, though, so there may be some markup glitches here).


What remains to be done:

1. Implement addition of atttypmod field to RowDescriptor messages.
   The client-side code is there but ifdef'd out.  I have no idea
   what to change on the backend side.  The field should be sent
   only if protocol >= 2.0, of course.

2. Implement backend response to cancel requests received as OOB
   messages.  (This prolly need not be conditional on protocol
   version; just do it if you get SIGURG.)

3. Update libpq.3.  (I'm hoping this can be generated mechanically
   from libpq.sgml... if not, will do it by hand.)  Is there any
   other doco to fix?

4. Update non-libpq interfaces as necessary.  I patched libpgtcl
   so that it would compile, but haven't tested it.  Dunno what
   needs to be done with the other interfaces.

Have at it!

Tom Lane

Tue Apr 28 14:48:41 CEST 1998

      - Put operator "->" back into parser. Note that :foo->bar means the
        C term, but :foo ->bar means the operator "->".

Tue Apr 28 15:49:07 CEST 1998

      - Added exec sql disconnect command.
      - Allow varchar in C to be written in uppercase too.
      - Added whenever option "do break;"

Wed Apr 29 09:17:53 CEST 1998

      - Corrected parsing of C comments.
      - Also allow C++ style comments.
      - Make sure not found is only checked after commands that could
          return it.
      - Added error codes, see ecpgerror.h for details.
      - Added "exec sql <TransactionStmt> release" as disconnect statement
        for compatibility issues.

Thu Apr 30 10:42:10 CEST 1998

      - Added a -t option to disable automatic transaction start.
      - Added sqlerrd[] to sqlca struct.
      - Give back number of tuples affect in sqlca.sqlerrd[2].

Thu Apr 30 13:36:02 CEST 1998

      - Make the return code different in case of different errors.

Wed May  6 11:42:48 CEST 1998

      - Free memory if possible
      - Some bugfixes for bugs I found while changing the memory
          allocation code
      - Now able to fill complete array with one call (see test1.pgc for
          an example)
      - Set version to 2.3.0
      - Set library version to 2.1

From: David Gould <dg@illustra.com>

currently has...

From: David Gould <dg@illustra.com>

confused.

Attached patch will add a version() function to Postges, e.g.

template1=> select version();
version
------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 6.3.2 on i586-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc 2.8.1
(1 row)

If PQfn() receives NOTICEs from the backend, it fails because there is no
provision to deal with them.

This patch (supplied by Anders Hammarquist <iko@netg.se> to me as Debian
maintainer of postgresql) cures the problem: