of '.' or '..'.  Extend canonicalize_path() to trim off trailing occurrences
of these things, and use it to fix up paths where needed (which I think is
only after places where we trim the last path component, but maybe some
others will turn up).  Fixes Josh's complaint that './initdb' does not
work.

slashes to backslashes #ifdef WIN32.  This is to cope with the fact
that Windows seems exceedingly unfriendly to slashes in shell commands,
as per recent discussion.

to support PST8PDT time zone for the regression tests.

tag her configure 8.0.0beta1 ...

plpgsql EXCEPTION blocks.

and into ddl.sgml.  Rewrite for more completeness and (hopefully)
clarity.

list.  More consistent with our other list-containing GUC variables.

on other recent changes in runtime parameter list.

CurrentMemoryContext is DLLIMPORT on Win32.  Work around that by
creating stubs in the backend for palloc/pstrdup.

Also fix pg_dumpall to do proper quoting on Win32.

the release notes.

was previously allowed in odd places with odd results now causes an ERROR.
Also changed behavior with respect to whitespace -- trailing whitespace is
now ignored as well as leading whitespace (which has always been ignored).

Documentation updated to reflect change in whitespace handling. Also some
refactoring to what I believe is a more sensible order of several paragraphs.

#ifdef calls.

quoting in this case is just needless obscurantism.

is attempting to comply.

David Fetter

David Fetter

David Fetter

Giving examples in the SQL command reference is hard because we don't
have conditionals at the SQL level.

Gavin Sherry

function parameters and dollar quoting in examples; do some polishing
of the existing dollar-quoting docs).  The 'how to port from Oracle'
section is looking pretty respectable these days ...

uses that for win32 tablespaces.

Andreas Pflug