in pghackers list.  Support for oldstyle internal functions is gone
(no longer needed, since conversion is complete) and pg_language entry
'internal' now implies newstyle call convention.  pg_language entry
'newC' is gone; both old and newstyle dynamically loaded C functions
are now called language 'C'.  A newstyle function must be identified
by an associated info routine.  See src/backend/utils/fmgr/README.

'long long int' portions of ecpg if the type or these functions don't
exist.

of user-defined functions (forget 'C' vs 'newC', instead require an info
function to be present for new-style functions).  Also update some other
out-of-date commentary.

option conventions.  (E.g., "pg_passwd -?" should not write to a file named
"-?".)

'b' prefixes.

a > comparison against INT_MIN may do the wrong thing.  Per suggestion
from Andreas.

where char is signed by default.

with an -fsigned-char/-funsigned-char setting opposite to that of libc,
thus breaking the convention that 'undefined' values returned by
localeconv() are represented by CHAR_MAX.  It is sheer stupidity that
gcc even has such a switch --- it's just as bad as the structure-packing
control switches offered by the more brain-dead PC compilers --- and
as for the behavior of Linux distribution vendors who set RPM_OPT_FLAGS
differently from the way they built libc, well, words fail me...

Also, add some comments about what it's for...

function calls to work.

by Chih-Chang Hsi. See "A Patch for MIC to EUC_TW code converting in
mb support" posting in pgsql-patches list dated 09 Nov 2000.

race condition --- old backend may not have shut down by the time we
try to do the DROP.

'make test' target.

wise the next bit string in the same command clobbers the previous ones.

maintained for each cache entry.  A cache entry will not be freed until
the matching ReleaseSysCache call has been executed.  This eliminates
worries about cache entries getting dropped while still in use.  See
my posting to pg-hackers of even date for more info.

owned, which can be annoying.

should have read:

Alfred Perlstein

    <entry>varchar(n)</entry>
        <entry>(4+x) bytes</entry>

should be
   <entry>varchar(n)</entry>
        <entry>(4+n) bytes</entry>

or
   <entry>varchar(x)</entry>
        <entry>(4+x) bytes</entry>

Regards

Laser Henry

Context diff this time.

Remove -m486 compile args for FreeBSD-i386, compile -O2 on i386.

Compile with only -O on alpha for codegen safety.

Make the port use the TEST_AND_SET for alpha and i386 on FreeBSD.

Fix a lot of bogus string formats for outputting pointers (cast to int
and %u/%x replaced with no cast and %p), and 'Size'(size_t) are now
cast to 'unsigned long' and output with %lu/

Remove an unused variable.

Alfred Perlstein

Here is one with a stray character removed.

Larry Rosenman

This code still needs a lot of love, however ...