6.3 postmaster is supposed to work with pre 6.3 protocol. This is true
for little endian architecture servers. But for big endian machines
such as Sparc the backward compatibility function do not work.
Attached are patches to fix the problem.

For substr() and substring() on the text data type, the relevant code is in
varlena.c. You are right, there is a problem. I have a patch which I will
apply to the source tree soon. The copy enclosed below probably does not
preserve tabs correctly so cannot be applied directly; the relevant change
is simply changing the ">=" to ">"...

It is my hope that the following "patches" to libpgtcl get included
in the next release.

See the update to the README file to get a full description of the changes.
This version of libpgtcl is completely interpreter-safe, implements the
database connection handle as a channel (no events yet, but will make it
a lot easier to do fileevents on it in the future), and supports the SQL
"copy table to stdout" and "copy table from stdin" commands, with the
I/O being from and to the connection handle.  The connection and result
handles are formatted in a way to make access to the tables more efficient.

Included are patches intended for allowing PostgreSQL to handle
multi-byte charachter sets such as EUC(Extende Unix Code), Unicode and
Mule internal code. With the MB patch you can use multi-byte character
sets in regexp and LIKE. The encoding system chosen is determined at
the compile time.

To enable the MB extension, you need to define a variable "MB" in
Makefile.global or in Makefile.custom. For further information please
take a look at README.mb under doc directory.

(Note that unlike "jp patch" I do not use modified GNU regexp any
more. I changed Henry Spencer's regexp coming with PostgreSQL.)

Included are patches intended for allowing PostgreSQL to handle
multi-byte charachter sets such as EUC(Extende Unix Code), Unicode and
Mule internal code. With the MB patch you can use multi-byte character
sets in regexp and LIKE. The encoding system chosen is determined at
the compile time.

To enable the MB extension, you need to define a variable "MB" in
Makefile.global or in Makefile.custom. For further information please
take a look at README.mb under doc directory.

(Note that unlike "jp patch" I do not use modified GNU regexp any
more. I changed Henry Spencer's regexp coming with PostgreSQL.)

Ok, this fixes three things:

1. It seems (from tests submitted by two people with JBuilder) that
   JBuilder expects a responce from ResultSetMetaData.getPrecision() &
   getScale() when used on non numeric types. This patch makes these
   methods return 0, instead of throwing an exception.

2. Fixes a small bug where getting the postgresql type name returns null.

3. Fixes a problem with ResultSet.getObject() where getting it's string
   value returns null if you case the object as (PGobject), but returns
   the value if you case it as it's self.

 Was ignoring second wildcard.

 Bug introduced in mid-January.

Patch1:

Postgres thinks dist_pl (dist of a point to a line) is expecting a box (603)
for the right arg, but it really should be a line (628).

Otherwise the left & right args match those of dist_pb (dist of a point to a
box) two lines further down.


Patch2:

Anyways, these two functions take a path (602) whereas in pg_proc.h they are
listed as taking a lseg (601).

From: t-ishii@sra.co.jp

Still has questionable code for some locale-specific strings.

Incorporate a few typo fixes.

Implement installation and cleaning.

 rather than just executing ../Makefile.

Should redo this before v6.3 release if possible.