it with configure-script tests to see whether const, inline, volatile, etc
work or not.  (Curiously, configure was already doing the work to see if
const and inline were OK, but the results were not getting plugged into
config.h :-(.)

Changes to fix/improve the dynamic loading on NT

From: Horak Daniel <horak@mmp.plzen-city.cz>

separately from snprintf() --- HPUX, for one, has snprintf but not
vsnprintf.  Fix a minor typo in snprintf.c, too.

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

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

assert.patch

        adds a switch to turn on/off the assert checking if enabled at compile
        time. You can now compile postgres with assert checking and disable it
        at runtime in a production environment.

"__SVR4" as you pointed out.  There is another file that has the
same mistakes.  Included is a patche for include/c.h.

t-ishii@sra.co.jp

Ok. I have decided to use:

#if defined(sun) && if defined(sparc) && !defined(__svr4)

instead of defined(sunos4).  interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h and
include/c.h have been modified(see included patches).

Another porblems I have found are:

o SunOS lacks strtoul(). to fix this I stole strtoul.c from FreeBSD
and place it under backend/port. necessary modifications have been
also made to backend/port/Makefile.in, include/config.h.in and
configure.in (see included patches).

(void) change for aix and hp compilers.

protocol cleanup.

I've completed the patch to fix the protocol and authentication issues I
was discussing a couple of weeks ago.  The particular changes are:

- the protocol has a version number
- network byte order is used throughout
- the pg_hba.conf file is used to specify what method is used to
  authenticate a frontend (either password, ident, trust, reject, krb4
  or krb5)
- support for multiplexed backends is removed
- appropriate changes to man pages
- the -a switch to many programs to specify an authentication service
  no longer has any effect
- the libpq.so version number has changed to 1.1

The new backend still supports the old protocol so old interfaces won't
break.

#define StrNCpy(dst,src,len)    \
	(strncpy((dst),(src),(len)),(len > 0) ? *((dst)+(len)-1)='\0' : \
	NULL,(void)(dst))
	     ^^^^^^ - to avoid "value computed is not used" from gcc
	in ma-a-any places (should to fix thouse places instead, but ...
	time)

config.h.in:
/*
 * TBL_FREE_CMD_MEMORY: free memory allocated for an user query inside
 * transaction block after this query is done.
 */
#define TBL_FREE_CMD_MEMORY
- this is default now.

Another PGINDENT run that changes variable indenting and case label indenting.  Also static variable indenting.