In the event of an elog() while the mode was set to immediate write,
there was no way for it to be set back to the normal delayed write.
The mechanism was a waste of space and cycles anyway, since the only user
was varsup.c, which could perfectly well call FlushBuffer directly.
Now it does just that, and the notion of a write mode is gone.

from gcc.  Which wasn't actually a code bug, but I don't like warnings.

Add some chapters on new topics.
Change to referencing OASIS/Docbook v3.1 rather than Davenport/Docbook v3.0
Grepped for and fixed apparent tag mangling from emacs
 "Normalize" operation. Should be the last of those.

Add PL/perl docs from Mark Hollomon.
Put language-specific docs into the User's Guide, and move the rest
 to the Programmer's Guide.

newer Alpha platforms.

broken almost since the word go ... I guess no one ever ran it ...

 single integers, and lists of names, without surrounding them with quotes.
Remove all tokens which are defined as operators from ColID and ColLabel
 to avoid precedence confusion. Thanks to Tom Lane for catching this.

to use -g ... especially not when this can cause real problems on some
platforms ...

from Bill.Allie@mug.org.

inclusions of system headers more consistent.

'#include <string>' work in the local C++ compiler.

 Programmer's Guide does not have access to the reference page.
Normalize markup.

to next integer.  Previously, if selectivity was small, we could compute
very tiny scan cost on the basis of estimating that only 0.001 tuple
would be fetched, which is silly.  This naturally led to some rather
silly plans...

 years. Rejects dates like '0.085', which were accepted previously.

 years. Rejects dates like '0.085', which were accepted previously.
Minor mods of ODBC markup.

Update porting info. Still need a lot of platforms tested.
Fix small errors in markup.

Matches postgresql.org/hub.org environment.

class.  This chapter was apparently sewed together from several
inconsistent examples... and perhaps from old docs that no longer
apply at all.