that the right flavors of largefile-related definitions are seen.
Most of these changes are probably unnecessary, but better safe than
sorry.

configuration.

(overlaying low byte of page size) and add HEAP_HASOID bit to t_infomask,
per earlier discussion.  Simplify scheme for overlaying fields in tuple
header (no need for cmax to live in more than one place).  Don't try to
clear infomask status bits in tqual.c --- not safe to do it there.  Don't
try to force output table of a SELECT INTO to have OIDs, either.  Get rid
of unnecessarily complex three-state scheme for TupleDesc.tdhasoids, which
has already caused one recent failure.  Improve documentation.

Use off_t and size_t in pg_dump to handle file offset arithmetic correctly.

attstattarget to indicate 'use the default'.  The default is now a GUC
variable default_statistics_target, and so may be changed on the fly.  Along
the way we gain the ability to have pg_dump dump the per-column statistics
target when it's not the default.  Patch by Neil Conway, with some kibitzing
from Tom Lane.

bitmap, if present).

Per Tom Lane's suggestion the information whether a tuple has an oid
or not is carried in the tuple descriptor.  For debugging reasons
tdhasoid is of type char, not bool.  There are predefined values for
WITHOID, WITHOUTOID and UNDEFOID.

This patch has been generated against a cvs snapshot from last week
and I don't expect it to apply cleanly to current sources.  While I
post it here for public review, I'm working on a new version against a
current snapshot.  (There's been heavy activity recently; hope to
catch up some day ...)

This is a long patch;  if it is too hard to swallow, I can provide it
in smaller pieces:

Part 1:  Accessor macros
Part 2:  tdhasoid in TupDesc
Part 3:  Regression test
Part 4:  Parameter withoid to heap_addheader
Part 5:  Eliminate t_oid from HeapTupleHeader

Part 2 is the most hairy part because of changes in the executor and
even in the parser;  the other parts are straightforward.

Up to part 4 the patched postmaster stays binary compatible to
databases created with an unpatched version.  Part 5 is small (100
lines) and finally breaks compatibility.

Manfred Koizar

As proof of concept, provide an alternate implementation based on POSIX
semaphores.  Also push the SysV shared-memory implementation into a
separate file so that it can be replaced conveniently.

 Use "--enable-integer-datetimes" in configuration to use this rather
 than the original float8 storage. I would recommend the integer-based
 storage for any platform on which it is available. We perhaps should
 make this the default for the production release.
Change timezone(timestamptz) results to return timestamp rather than
 a character string. Formerly, we didn't have a way to represent
 timestamps with an explicit time zone other than freezing the info into
 a string. Now, we can reasonably omit the explicit time zone from the
 result and return a timestamp with values appropriate for the specified
 time zone. Much cleaner, and if you need the time zone in the result
 you can put it into a character string pretty easily anyway.
Allow fractional seconds in date/time types even for dates prior to 1BC.
Limit timestamp data types to 6 decimal places of precision. Just right
 for a micro-second storage of int8 date/time types, and reduces the
 number of places ad-hoc rounding was occuring for the float8-based types.
Use lookup tables for precision/rounding calculations for timestamp and
 interval types.  Formerly used pow() to calculate the desired value but
 with a more limited range there is no reason to not type in a lookup
 table. Should be *much* better performance, though formerly there were
 some optimizations to help minimize the number of times pow() was called.
Define a HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP variable. Based on the configure option
 "--enable-integer-datetimes" and the existing internal INT64_IS_BUSTED.
Add explicit date/interval operators and functions for addition and
 subtraction. Formerly relied on implicit type promotion from date to
 timestamp with time zone.
Change timezone conversion functions for the timetz type from "timetz()"
 to "timezone()". This is consistant with other time zone coersion
 functions for other types.
Bump the catalog version to 200204201.
Fix up regression tests to reflect changes in fractional seconds
 representation for date/times in BC eras.
All regression tests pass on my Linux box.

and --without-zlib to turn them off.

and/or with GUC variables.

calls with new or now-built-in versions.  Make sure that all
calls to AC_DEFINE have a third argument, for possible use of
autoheader in the future.

compile in client apps that use the standard installed header set.
To allow removing that include, move DLLIMPORT definitions out of c.h
and into the appropriate port-specific header files.

provide a default definition equating it to 'int'.  Should trigger only
on machines with pre-ANSI-C header files, eg SunOS 4.1.x.

which include files to consider.  Should fix BeOS problems with int8 types.

int8, int16, int32, int64 and separately uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64

The previous patch grouped:
int8, int16 and int32
uint8, uint16 and uint32
int64 and uint64  <-- this grouping is wrong on AIX 4.3.3 and below

If you prefer to make 4 groups out of this you could apply this patch.

Andreas

Peter E, Tatsuo, Andreas

out glibc doesn't actually export this variable, so we need a different
solution.

before.

Enabling this feature adds very light overhead of 1 select from pg_class on
first using of pl/tcl in backend if unknown suppport is really unused.
But pl/tcl with this support has very improved functionality.

Patch includes changes to documentation.

> > > > >   and --enable-unicode-convertion if it ought to work correctly
> > > > >   with Tcl/Tk >= 8.1 (client or server side).
> > > > >
> > > > > - PL/Tcl needs to be changed to use pg_do_encoding_conversion
> > > > >   if it runs on a Tcl version >= 8.1 .
> > >
> > > > I'll do pl/tcl part in the next version of patch. Using this approach we
> > > > can eliminate overhead for databases in UNICODE.
> > >
> > > Any progress on this?  I'd prefer to get rid of this --enable-pltcl-utf
> > > option before release.
> >
> > Done
> >
> > Next version removes --enable-pltcl-utf switch and enables embedded
> > utf conversion of pgsql if tcl version >=8.1 and --enable-unicode-conversion

an already installed iODBC or unixODBC driver manager.  In particular,
use the include files provided by the driver manager over our own,
and use the odbcinst library of the driver manager rather than gpps.c.

Migrate portability sections common to several files into psqlodbc.h.

unicode-conversion is always on if --enable-multibyte is specified

	   Tatsuo Ishii

for them, and making them just wastes time during backend startup/shutdown.
Also, remove compile-time MAXBACKENDS limit per long-ago proposal.
You can now set MaxBackends as high as your kernel can stand without
any reconfiguration/recompilation.

> pam_strerror() should be used a few more times, rather than just saying
> "Error!".  Also, the configure.in snippet seems wrong.  You add
> -I$pam_prefix/include/security to $INCLUDES and then you #include
> <security/pam_appl.h>.  This whole thing is probably unnecessary, since
> PAM is a system library on the systems where it exists, so the headers
> and libraries are found automatically, unlike OpenSSL and
> Kerberos.

See attached revised patch. (I'm sure the configure.in stuff can be done
right/better, I'm just not enough of a autoconf guru to know what to
change it to.)

Dominic J. Eidson

Now with documentation update and disabling of UTF conversion for Tcl <=8.0

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Vsevolod Lobko wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > > Is this looks better?
> >
> > It does, but one small gripe: the lack of semicolons will probably cause
> > pg_indent to mess up the indentation.  (I know emacs' autoindent mode
> > will not work nicely with it, either.)  Please set up the macros so that
> > you write
> >
> >                         UTF_BEGIN;
> >                         Tcl_DStringAppend(&unknown_src, UTF_E2U(part), -1);
> >                         UTF_END;
> >
> > and then I'll be happy.
>
> Attached revised patch
>
> > Your point about overhead is a good one, so I retract the gripe about
> > using a configure switch.  But please include documentation patches to
> > describe the configure option in the administrator's guide (installation
> > section).
>
> This patch still uses configure switch for enabling feature.
>
> For enabling based on tcl version we have 2 posibilites:
>  1) having feature enabled by default, but in pltcl.c check for tcl
>     version and disable it for old versions
>  2) enable or disable at configure time based on tcl version, but there
>     are problem - current configure don't checks for tcl version at all
>     and my configure skills not enought for adding this
>

Vsevolod Lobko

places that were including the wrong files.

points out how silly it is to use Autoconf to test for a preprocessor
symbol, when one can equally easily #ifdef on the symbol itself.
Accordingly, revert configure to prior state and do it that way.

system supports SO_PEERCRED requests for Unix sockets.  This is an
amalgamation of patches submitted by Helge Bahmann and Oliver Elphick,
with some editorializing by yours truly.

Note: I didn't force an initdb, figuring that one today was enough.
However, there is a new function in pg_proc.h, and pg_dump won't be
able to dump partial indexes until you add that function.

a lie on many Unixen), invoke listen() with MIN(MaxBackends*2, 10000).
The clamp value 10000 is configurable in config.h.in, if that proves
to be necessary --- hopefully it won't.

when built against readline 4.2.  Specifically, it handles the deprecation
of

    filename_completion_function()

with preference for

    rl_filename_completion_function()

Although, I was motivated by Cygwin support, IMO this patch is appropriate
for all platforms.  To quote from the readline source:

    #if 0
    /* Backwards compatibility (compat.c).  These will go away sometime. */
    ...
    extern READLINE_EXPORT(char, *filename_completion_function) ...
    #endif

Note that this patch is modeled after the one by Peter Eisentraut for
completion_matches():

    http://www.ca.postgresql.org/~petere/readline42.html
I tested this patch under the following environments:

    Cygwin with readline 4.1
    Cygwin with readline 4.2
    Linux with readline 2.2.1
    Linux with readline 4.2

and it behaved as expected.

Jason Tishler

Use --enable-nls to turn it on; see installation instructions for details.
See developer's guide how to make use of it in programs and how to add
translations.

psql sources have been almost fully prepared and an incomplete German
translation has been provided.  In the backend, only elog() calls are
currently translatable, and the provided German translation file is more
of a placeholder.

a separate statement (though it can still be invoked as part of VACUUM, too).
pg_statistic redesigned to be more flexible about what statistics are
stored.  ANALYZE now collects a list of several of the most common values,
not just one, plus a histogram (not just the min and max values).  Random
sampling is used to make the process reasonably fast even on very large
tables.  The number of values and histogram bins collected is now
user-settable via an ALTER TABLE command.

There is more still to do; the new stats are not being used everywhere
they could be in the planner.  But the remaining changes for this project
should be localized, and the behavior is already better than before.

A not-very-related change is that sorting now makes use of btree comparison
routines if it can find one, rather than invoking '<' twice.