decompress the existing fields unnecessarily.

-c,--clean option to manual page.

Then I recompiled pgsql and I have compiled a program with ecpg.

I have removed the termios.h, and the ECHO hack.

Thanks
Maurizio

is clearly not maintainable, so dike it out in favor of calling the real
version in the backend's gram.y.

recommended install procedure, rather than mentioning it as an afterthought.

rather than executing the INTO clause with non-plpgsql semantics
as it was doing for the last few weeks/months.  This keeps our options
open for making it do the right plpgsql-ish thing in future without
creating a backwards compatibility problem.  There is no loss of
functionality since people can get the same behavior with CREATE TABLE AS.

contrib/init.d start script.  Place into more aptly named directory.  Maybe
we could add scripts for other platforms here later.

Add -l option to name log file.  Set umask to 077.
Proper file descriptor redirection to allow postmaster to detach from
shell's process group.
Add -s option to turn off informational messages.

any other client connections that may exist (which would only happen if
another client is currently in the authentication cycle).  This avoids
wastage of open descriptors in a child.  It might also explain peculiar
behaviors like not closing connections when expected, since the kernel
will probably not signal EOF as long as some other backend is randomly
holding open a reference to the connection, even if the client went away
long since ...

runtime recovery OFF.

and prior releases --- rely on pg_views view instead of direct access
to pg_class and pg_rewrite.

belong ...

or local equivalent.  Also, honor --with-pgport configure option for
default port number, and allow PGPORT environment variable to override
this.

scripts like pgaccess.

the Windows build...

Other flags can have unpredictable effects when Python uses different
commands to build than we do.

honor library search path that we so carefully installed into the
executable ...

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        - Completed first two TestCase's for the test suite. JUnit is now
          recognised by ant.

Add java.