From: Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>

+
+ Wed May  6 16:09:45 CEST 1998
+
+       - Some more cleanups in the library.
+
+ Thu May  7 12:34:28 CEST 1998
+
+       - Made CONNECT and DISCONNECT statement more SQL3 compliant.
+       - Changed the API for the ECPGconnect function to be able to handle
+         hostnames and ports
+
+ Fri May  8 13:54:45 CEST 1998
+       - More changes to the parser. The connect statement now allows
+         ORACLE style logins.
+       - db-name is accepted in two ways:
+               - <dbname>[@<server>][:<port>]
+               - esql:postgresql://<server>[:<port>][/<dbname>]
+
+ Mon May 11 10:28:37 CEST 1998
+
+       - Added '? options' to connect call.
+       - Also allow USING as keyword for the password
+
+ Thu May 14 15:09:58 CEST 1998
+
+       - Changed preproc.y and pgc.l according to the parser changes in the
+         backend.
+
+ Fri May 15 09:55:21 CEST 1998
+
+       - Added connection_name handling
+
+
+ Mon May 18 10:33:58 CEST 1998
+
+       - Fixed some more bugs
+       - Set version to 2.3.1
+       - Set library version to 2.2

From: "Aldrin L." <aldrin@americasnet.com>

Subject: [INTERFACES] mSQL Compatibility Library (fwd)

Made a copy of errors with the AC_TRY_RUN() macro...appears to work better
under FreeBSD for DBL_MIN check now...

Add a check for DBL_MIN problem...not sure if this is right...needs
testing...

is not |documented, here is the relevant patch for it

Anton

psql in Postgres 6.3.2.  Both of these problems were complained of
recently in pgsql-questions:

1. In the right circumstances, psql.c will fail to compile due to
trying
   to include a nonexistent <history.h>.  (Thread "Compile-time
   error" around 17 Apr 98.) 2. In other circumstances, psql will
compile but does not provide
   command history capability, even though the underlying readline
   library supports it.  (Various threads, most recently "query
   repetition in psql" around 29 Apr.)

Tom Lane

solaris/spare shared libararies, new error message for postmaster
startup, and makefile cleanups.

compiling nbtsearch.c after configuring with --enable-cassert.
Patch below.

-- --------------------------------------------- Göran Thyni,
sysadm, JMS Bildbasen, Kiruna

and allow CUSTOM_COPT to appear in compile AND LINK commands.

 (inside of #ifdef PARSEDEBUG blocks).

 broke a long time ago when some definitions changed.

Reintroduce fixes for unary minus parsing with leading spaces.

Check for and properly ignore FOREIGN KEY column constraints
 (already had fixed same for table constraints).
Define USER as synonym for CURRENT_USER per SQL92 specs
 (no longer allowed as bare column name, sorry).
Re-enable HAVING clause but no fixes elsewhere yet.
Other stuff from today's update of gram.y...

Check for and properly ignore FOREIGN KEY column constraints
 (already had fixed same for table constraints).
Define USER as synonym for CURRENT_USER per SQL92 specs
 (no longer allowed as bare column name, sorry).
Re-enable HAVING clause but no fixes elsewhere yet.
Make "char" type a synonum for "char(1)" (actually implemented as bpchar).
Compress/compact row-style subselect and operator definitions
 (cut out ~140 lines of code with no change in functionality).
Save string type if specified for DEFAULT clause handling.
Enough for now...

Reintroduce fixes for unary minus parsing with leading spaces.

Add #define's for remaining "builtin" types.

Add routines to allow sizing of varchar and bpchar into target columns.

Incorporate patches from Gautam for line/point intersection.

Fix up "ISO-style" timespan decoding and encoding.

Try to generalize the gzip/tar usage for more portability.