ODBC driver have found a bug in 6.3.2 pg_dump and have made patches.
I confirmed that the same bug still exists in the current source
tree. So I made up patches based on Kataoka's. Here are some
explanations.

o fmtId() returns pointer to a static memory in it. In the meantime
there is a line where is fmtId() called twice without saving the
first value returned by fmtId(). So second call to fmtId() will
break the first one.

o findTableByName() looks up a table by its name. if a table name
contanins upper letters or non ascii chars, fmtId() will returns
a name quoted in double quotes, which will not what findTableByName()
wants. The result is SEG fault.  -- Tatsuo Ishii t-ishii@sra.co.jp

This patch resolves some regression test failures caused by platform
dependencies.

David Hartwig

was tested with Linux/GCC.  I still have some issues with with the
snprintf() function.

David Hartwig

Here is a new patch for libpq, to make it work on Win32 again (since
the latest modifications broke it a little).

Please also add the file "libpq.rc" to the interfaces/libpq directory.
This will allow version-stamping of the generated DLL file, so that
automatic install programs (and interested users) can determine
the version of the file.  The file is currently set as "prerelease".
Before the release, somebody should change the line "FILEFLAGS
VS_FF_PRERELEASE" to "FILEFLAGS 0".  That information should probably
go into toos\RELEASE_CHANGES.

The patch is against the cvs as of ~ 1998-08-26 14:30 CEST.


//Magnus

anymore.  Fix for large objects.

From: Michael Meskes <meskes@online-club.de>

This one is against the current archive (so it contains the one I send the
other day). It should fix the AIX problems. Andreas, could you please try
it? Thanks.

+ Wed Aug 26 16:17:39 CEST 1998
+
+       - Sync preproc.y with gram.y
+
+ Thu Aug 27 15:32:23 CEST 1998
+
+       - Fix some minor glitches that the AIX compiler complains about
+       - Added patchlevel to library
+
+ Fri Aug 28 15:36:58 CEST 1998
+
+       - Removed one line of code that AIX complains about since it was not
+         needed anyway
+       - Set library version to 2.6.1

From: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

I have this small patch which fixes a typo in my previous lock patches.
Fortunately the bug affects only user locks.

-

    I  don't know if this is really related to the initdb problem
    discussion (haven't followed it enough). But seems so because
    it  fixes  a  damn  problem  during  index tuple insertion on
    CREATE TABLE into pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index.

    Anyway - this bug was really hard to find. During startup the
    relcache  reads  in  some  prepared  information  about index
    strategies from a file and then  reinitializes  the  function
    pointers  inside  the  scanKey data.  But for sake it assumed
    single attribute index tuples (hasn't that changed recently).
    Thus not all the strategies scanKey entries where initialized
    properly,  resulting  in  invalid  addresses  for  the  btree
    comparision functions.

    With  the  patch  at  the  end  the  regression  tests passed
    excellent except for the sanity_check that crashed at  vacuum
    and the misc test where the select unique1 from onek2 outputs
    the two rows in different order.

Jan

From: Magnus Hagander <mha@edu.sollentuna.se>

Ok. Here is a patch to make psql work on Win32 (as a console mode
application, of course).
It requires getopt.c to be in src/utils - works fine with the FreeBSD
version of it.

Also, the file win32.mak should go into src/bin/psql.

 and index name fields are pstrdup'd (copied) rather than reused.

cvs add'd two files for the tprintf() patch...

From: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

>       these patches define the UNLISTEN sql command. The code already
>       existed but it was unknown to the parser. Now it can be used
>       like the listen command.
>       You must make clean and delete gram.c and parser.h before make.

From: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

> tprintf.patch
>
>       tprintf.patch
>
>       adds functions and macros which implement a conditional trace package
>       with the ability to change flags and numeric options of running
>       backends at runtime.
>       Options/flags can be specified in the command line and/or read from
>       the file pg_options in the data directory.

Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

> socket-flock.patch
>
>       use advisory locks to check if the unix socket can be deleted.
>       A running postmaster keeps a lock on that file. A starting
>       postmaster exits if the file exists and is locked, otherwise
>       it deletes the sockets and proceeds.
>       This avoid the need to remove manually the file after a postmaster
>       or system crash.
>       I don't know if flock is available on any system. If not we could
>       define a HAVE_FLOCK set by configure.

From: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

> sinval.patch
>
>       fixes a problem in SI cache which causes table overflow if some
>       backend is idle for a long time while other backends keep adding
>       entries.
>       It uses the new signal handling implemented in tprintf.patch.
>       I have also increacasesed the max number of backends from 32 to 64
>       and the table size from 1000 to 5000.
>       I don't know if anybody is working on SI, but until another
>       solution is found this patch fixes the problem. I have received
>       messages from other people reporting the same problem which I
>       fixed many months ago.

missed adding a new include file

From: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

> sequence.patch
>
>       adds the missing setval command to sequences. Owner of sequences
>       can now set the last value to any value between min and max
>       without recreating the sequence. This is useful after loading
>       data from external files.

From: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

> ps-status.patch
>
>       macros for ps status, used by postgres.c and utility.c.
>       Unfortunately ps status is system dependent and the current
>       code doesn't work on linux. The use of macros confines system
>       dependency to into one file (ps-status.h). Users of other
>       operating systems should check this code and submit new macros.