results in a bogus datetime value under AlphaLinux.  (Note that
the link to submit a port-specific bug on your website is broken)

-Test Case:
----------
testdb=> create table dttest (dt datetime);
testdb=> insert into dttest values ('now');

--------------------------------------------------------------------------


Solution:
---------
The basic problem is the typedefs of AbsoluteTime and RelativeTime,
which are both 'int32'.  These types appear to be used synonymously
with the 'time_t' type, which on AlphaLinux is typedef'd as a 'long
int', which is 64-bits (not 32).  The solution included here fixes
the datetime type (it now passes the regression test), but does not
pass the absolute and relative time regression tests.  Presumably, a
more thorough investigation of how these types are used is warranted.
The included patch is from the v6.3.2 source, but can be applied to
the v6.4.2 source.  Please note that there is also a RedHat-specific
patch distributed with the PostgreSQL source package from RedHat
that was applied first.

Rich Edwards

    Just in case you'd like to see what I was talking about, I am
attaching
my patch to src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c to prevent utility functions
called from SPI from locking up the client.

Jerry Gay

DwD
--
Daryl W. Dunbar

o overwriting an existing lobj now works
o 8KB garbage block always inserted problem is fixed

Tatsuo Ishii

authentifica
tion
working with postgresql-6.4.2 and  KTH-KRB Ebones
(http://www.pdc.kth.se/kth-kr
b) on a dec alpha running DU 4.0D using the native compiler. The
following
patch does the trick.

The rationale behind this is as follows. The KTH-KRB code header files
defines
lots of lengths like INST_SZ,REALM_SZ and KRB_SENDAUTH_VLEN. It also has
a
habit of doing things like

        chararray[LENGTH] = '\0'

to ensure null terminated strings. In my instance this just happens to
blat
the kerberos principal instance string leading to error like

        pg_krb4_recvauth: kerberos error: Can't decode authenticator
(krb_rd_req
)

The application code that comes with KTH-KRB uses "KRB_SENDAUTH_VLEN +
1" and
sometimes uses "INST_SZ + 1" so it seems safest to put that 1 char
buffer in
the appropriate place.


Rodney McDuff

NetBSD/macppc
LinuxPPC
FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE

All of them seem happy with the regression test. Note that, however,
compiling with optimization enabled on NetBSD/macppc causes an initdb
failure (other two platforms are ok). After checking the asm code, we
are suspecting that might be a compiler(egcs) bug.

Tatsuo Ishii

the user is allowed to detroy users.  It also allows for a possible incorrect
empty reply to a yes/no question.


Oliver Elphick

to the tutorial code changes.

NOTE:  I couldn't get ngsmls to find the document
type so that the changes could be checked.  However,
the changes were very minor:

Best,

Clark

Removed char16 and replaced with an example using Point
as suggested by Tom Lane.  The dept field was changed to
the cubicle field denoting the row(x) and column(y) of
the employee's cube in the corporate jungle.  The C function
builds a 'compromise' cubicle from two suggested ones.

I'll try and patchup the documentation next.

Clark

I've been working on the following TODO list item:
  * psql \d on index with char()/varchar() fields shows improper length

I've attached a simple patch to fix this.

-Ryan

incorrect result. This bug goes back to at least 6.3.

Alvin

records using a sub form, i.e. entering a new order/orderlines or master
and
detail tables.  The problem is caused by a SQL statement that Access97
makes
involving NULL.  The syntax that fails is "column_name" = NULL.  The
following attachment was provided by -Jose'-.  It contains a very small
enhancement to gram.y that will allow Access97 to work properly with sub
forms.  Can this enhancement be added to release 6.5?

 <<gram.patch>>
Thanks, Michael

the handling of negative numbers and commas. The attached path attempts
to fix these.
However the getValue method does not yet insert commas into the
generated string.
Also in getValue there is an incorrect assumption that the currency
symbol is '$', it should of course be '£'!. I have no idea on how to go
about fixing this one.

Alvin

I would like some feedback on what the hash function for the int8 hash
function
in the ./backend/access/hash/hashfunc.c should return.

Also, could someone (maybe Tomas Lockhart?) look-over the patch and make
sure
the system table entries are correct?  I've tried to research them as
much as I
could, but some of them are still not clear to me.

Thanks,
-Ryan

Try select t1.x from t1, t2 where t1.y = 1 and t2.y = 1
- t2 scan target list will be empty and so no one tuple
will be returned...

so that it has some SQL operators available.  It's difficult to write
automated tests of a data type that you haven't even got == for...

and pg_operator.  The lone error in pg_operator was reported as a bug
by Michael Reifenberger; the multiple errors in pg_proc would only have
been noticed if one invoked the functions by name rather than using
operator syntax.  I guess few people do that.

From: Constantin Teodorescu <teo@flex.ro>

UPgrade to 0.96 ..

Changes to fix/improve the dynamic loading on NT

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

Have configure check for use of %lld for int64, and if that fails, check for
use of %qd...a more generic solution then having #ifdef __<INSERT OS HERE>__
in the code...

palloc.h again.  Move exporting of backend header files out of libpq's
Makefile (whatever was it doing there in the first place?) and into
backend/Makefile.

is less likely to fail for lack of semaphores.

This change brings the default size of the main shmem block back under 1MB,
which is a fairly popular value for the kernel's SHMMAX parameter.

_copyResult didn't copy subPlan structure completely.  _copyAgg is still
busted, apparently because of changes from EXCEPT/INTERSECT patch
(get_agg_tlist_references is no longer sufficient to find all aggregates).
No time to look at that tonight, however.

so remove them from MergeJoin node.  Hack together a partial
solution for commuted mergejoin operators --- yesterday
a mergejoin int4 = int8 would crash if the planner decided to
commute it, today it works.  The planner's representation of
mergejoins really needs a rewrite though.
Also, further testing of mergejoin ops in opr_sanity regress test.

From: Michael Meskes <Michael_Meskes@topmail.de>

+
+ Tue Feb 23 17:32:25 CET 1999
+
+       - Other than a struct a union itself cannot be specified as variable.
+
+ Fri Feb 26 07:18:25 CET 1999
+
+       - Synced preproc.y with gram.y.
+
+ Sat Feb 27 20:30:03 CET 1999
+
+       - Added automatic allocating for NULL pointers.