selectivity functions and make the r-tree operators use them.  The
estimation functions themselves are just stubs, unfortunately, but
perhaps someday someone will make them compute realistic estimates.
Change pg_am so that the optimizer can reliably tell the difference
between ordered and unordered indexes --- before it would think that
an r-tree index can be scanned in '<<' order, which is not right AFAIK.
Repair broken negator links for network_sup and related ops.
Initdb forced.  This might be my last initdb force for 7.0 ... hope so
anyway ...

new datetime regress test.  Someone needs to deal with fixing
expected/horology-solaris-1947.out too, assuming we still need it.

Version: 6.5.3-11
Severity: important

'char' is not a signed type by default on powerpc; therefore a character
can
never be equal to EOF (-1).  A patch is attached.

Dan

/--------------------------------\  /--------------------------------\
|       Daniel Jacobowitz        |__|        SCS Class of 2002       |

Implement "date/time grand unification".
 Transform datetime and timespan into timestamp and interval.
 Deprecate datetime and timespan, though translate to new types in gram.y.
 Transform all datetime and timespan catalog entries into new types.
 Make "INTERVAL" reserved word allowed as a column identifier in gram.y.
 Remove dt.h, dt.c files, and retarget datetime.h, datetime.c as utility
  routines for all date/time types.
 date.{h,c} now deals with date, time types.
 timestamp.{h,c} now deals with timestamp, interval types.
 nabstime.{h,c} now deals with abstime, reltime, tinterval types.
Make NUMERIC a known native type for purposes of type coersion. Not tested.

Implement "date/time grand unification".
 Transform datetime and timespan into timestamp and interval.
 Deprecate datetime and timespan, though translate to new types in gram.y.
 Transform all datetime and timespan catalog entries into new types.
 Make "INTERVAL" reserved word allowed as a column identifier in gram.y.
 Remove dt.h, dt.c files, and retarget datetime.h, datetime.c as utility
  routines for all date/time types.
 date.{h,c} now deals with date, time types.
 timestamp.{h,c} now deals with timestamp, interval types.
 nabstime.{h,c} now deals with abstime, reltime, tinterval types.
Make NUMERIC a known native type for purposes of type coersion. Not tested.

 Transform datetime and timespan into timestamp and interval.
 Deprecate datetime and timespan, though translate to new types in gram.y.
 Transform all datetime and timespan catalog entries into new types.
 Make "INTERVAL" reserved word allowed as a column identifier in gram.y.
 Remove dt.h, dt.c files, and retarget datetime.h, datetime.c as utility
  routines for all date/time types.
 date.{h,c} now deals with date, time types.
 timestamp.{h,c} now deals with timestamp, interval types.
 nabstime.{h,c} now deals with abstime, reltime, tinterval types.
Make NUMERIC a known native type for purposes of type coersion. Not tested.

Implement "date/time grand unification".
 Transform datetime and timespan into timestamp and interval.
 Deprecate datetime and timespan, though translate to new types in gram.y.
 Transform all datetime and timespan catalog entries into new types.
 Make "INTERVAL" reserved word allowed as a column identifier in gram.y.
 Remove dt.h, dt.c files, and retarget datetime.h, datetime.c as utility
  routines for all date/time types.
 date.{h,c} now deals with date, time types.
 timestamp.{h,c} now deals with timestamp, interval types.
 nabstime.{h,c} now deals with abstime, reltime, tinterval types.
Make NUMERIC a known native type for purposes of type coersion. Not tested.

the disbursion is 0.5, not something small.

and make scalarltsel a little more forgiving at the boundaries of the
known range of a column value.

planner now produces two cost numbers instead of one.

doesn't seem to be used at the moment, but as long as I'm looking at it...

accesses versus sequential accesses, a (very crude) estimate of the
effects of caching on random page accesses, and cost to evaluate WHERE-
clause expressions.  Export critical parameters for this model as SET
variables.  Also, create SET variables for the planner's enable flags
(enable_seqscan, enable_indexscan, etc) so that these can be controlled
more conveniently than via PGOPTIONS.

Planner now estimates both startup cost (cost before retrieving
first tuple) and total cost of each path, so it can optimize queries
with LIMIT on a reasonable basis by interpolating between these costs.
Same facility is a win for EXISTS(...) subqueries and some other cases.

Redesign pathkey representation to achieve a major speedup in planning
(I saw as much as 5X on a 10-way join); also minor changes in planner
to reduce memory consumption by recycling discarded Path nodes and
not constructing unnecessary lists.

Minor cleanups to display more-plausible costs in some cases in
EXPLAIN output.

Initdb forced by change in interface to index cost estimation
functions.

results of constraints regress test.

Renormalize query.sgml and fix indenting.

  SELECT a FROM t1 tx (a);
Allow join syntax, including queries like
  SELECT * FROM t1 NATURAL JOIN t2;
Update RTE structure to hold column aliases in an Attr structure.

Add "SESSION_USER" as SQL92 keyword; equivalent to CURRENT_USER for now.
Implement column aliases (aka correlation names) and more join syntax.
Fix up indenting and tabbing.

Still needs to be done for the general case:
 "tz+/-#" where tz is a 3 char string.
This will probably involve moving code around to other places.

where else to mail it. I am the maintainer of unixODBC, and we have a
set of code in our project that started life as the Postgres windows
ODBC driver, which has been ported back to unix. Anyway I have just
fixed a memory leak in the driver, and I cant see any mention of the fix
being done in the main Postgres code, so I thougth I would let you know.

Its in the statement.c module, after the COMMIT statement has been
executed in SC_Execute, the code was

Nick Gorham