for int8 support.  configure now checks only snprintf() for int8 support,
not sprintf and sscanf as it used to.  The reason for doing this is that
if we are supplying our own snprintf code (which does handle long long int),
we now only need working long long support in the compiler not in the
platform's C library.  I have verified that int8 now passes regression test
on HPUX 9, and I think it should work on SunOS 4.1.* and other older
platforms if gcc is used.

I search in the planner for the '\xFF' appending.
Finally I found in MakeIndexable() in gram.y

Attach a patch which removes the "<=" test in USE_LOCALE,
might make some queries a bit slower for us "locale-heads",
BUT correct result is more important.

        regards,
--
-----------------
Göran Thyni

o allow to use Big5 (a Chinese encoding used in Taiwan) as a client
  encoding. In this case the server side encoding should be EUC_TW

o add EUC_TW and Big5 test cases to the regression and the mb test
  (contributed by Jonah Kuo)

o fix mistake in include/mb/pg_wchar.h. An encoding id for EUC_TW was
  not correct (was 3 and now is 4)

o update documents (doc/README.mb and README.mb.jp)

o update psql helpfile (bin/psql/psqlHelp.h)

--
Tatsuo Ishii
t-ishii@sra.co.jp

when parsestate in makeRangeTable() already contains an
opened p_target_relation.

Jan

Fixed growing of backend if BEFORE DELETE trigger returns heap tuple
different from trigtuple.

Jan

but it saves almost 10% of the runtime in Charles Hornberger's optimizer
example, so what the heck ...

freebsd4.0 needed to be added to configure...

From: Michael Meskes <Michael.Meskes@usa.net>

+
+ Wed Jan 27 12:42:22 CET 1999
+
+       - Fixed bug that caused ecpg to lose 'goto' information.
+       - Set ecpg version to 2.4.7
+
+ Fri Jan 29 18:03:52 CET 1999
+
+       - Fixed bug that caused 'enum' to be rejected in pure C code.
+       - Fixed bug that caused function names to be translated to lower case.
+       - Set ecpg version to 2.4.8
+

From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>

The following patch does two things.

 - Clarifies what the effect of allowing users to add new users (Thet
   become super-users.)
 - Makes the default database for the new user if they are not allowed
   to and the user agrees to create it.

per patch from Tatsuo Ishii

Fix for BEFORE ROW UPDATE triggers: result tuple may be different
(due to concurrent update) from one initially produced by top level plan.

check if a rewrite rule on SELECT exists/not exists instead
of asking pg_get_viewdef() function.

Jan

identifier support.

Jan

Left are identifiers that contain non-alnum/_ chars.
So e.g. whitespaces in identifiers are still not
supported.

Jan

instead of SPI_execp() for simple expressions.

Jan

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>

Included patches fix a portability problem of unsetenv() used in
6.4.2 multi-byte support. unsetenv() is only avaliable on FreeBSD and
Linux so I decided to replace with putenv().

result, too ... another little bit of speed for SELECT.

only once per SELECT, not once per tuple.  10% here, 10% there,
pretty soon you're talking about real speedups ...

primary key support cleanups from D'Arcy...

From: Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>

This implements some of the JDBC2 methods, fixes a bug introduced into the
JDBC1 portion of the driver, and introduces a new example, showing how to
use the CORBA ORB thats in Java2 with JDBC.

The Tar file contains the new files, the diff the changes to the others.
CHANGELOG is separate as I forgot to make a .orig ;-)

by about 10% which seems to be good for half a percent or so of a SELECT.

seems to have improved speed of routine by 5% or so ...

but useful speedup.