This results from improvements in datetime.c which ensures that the
 conversions are done in local time rather than GMT.

Bring optional new-storage date and time up to date and test.
This new storage format should fix the "Sparc gcc -O2 bug".
(Enable new code with USE_NEW_DATE and USE_NEW_TIME in dt.h)

make doesn't proceed

Fixes:

	Shared objects are not linked correctly

Subject: [PATCHES] Patch for INSTALL

The following patch makes a number of modifications to file INSTALL.
Among other things, it restores some platform specific notes I deleted.
It also no longer requires a separate compile for the regression tests.

Please note that this patch already incorporates the patch Hal Snyder
submitted on Monday.  Do not apply Hal's patch.

 system calls on AIX (and probably other machines too).

       Note: currently, only btree access method supports  multi-
       attribute indices.  Up to 7 keys may be specified.

Subject: [PORTS] minor fix for DGUX port

src/include/port/dgux.h needs the following three lines appended:

#ifndef         BYTE_ORDER
#define         BYTE_ORDER      BIG_ENDIAN
#endif


I believe this to be correct for DG/UX on M88k processors.  I don't have one of
the new Intel-based boxes to check on.

 tests, including new tests.

Add regression tests for circles, line segments, and paths.
Modify regression tests to allow GEQ optimizer (order results).

Include some additional path functions which were coded but omitted here.
Add translation and rotation/scaling operators for some geometric types.
Fix bugs in some geometry comparison operator declarations.

Pass an additional argument for date/time formatting to better handle timezones.

Add type conversion functions for floating point numbers.
Check for zero in unary minus floating point code (IEEE allows an
 explicit negative zero which looks ugly in a query result!).
Ensure circle type has non-negative radius.

manual intervention required :)

Subject: [PATCHES] Documentation update

This patch updates some of the documentation that comes with the
distribution.  The following files are updated:
        COPYRIGHT
        README
        doc/README.flex
        doc/README.support
        doc/bug.template

Subject: [PATCHES] libpq patch

Hi,

here is a small patch which fixes two problems:

1. libpq/libpq-fe.h:

somehow disappeared the line

#define DefaultOption ""

now compilation stops with an error complainig an
unknown DefaultOption (970508).


2. Same patch as I sent already twice, but it never made it
  into the source tree:  there is no default value for
  AuthType and Password. This way any libpq-application
  (i.e. perl-scripts) which use the function PQconnectdb
  will break with PostgreSQL-6.1. The patch simply uses
  an empty string as default value.

Subject: [PATCHES] Patches for boolean, timespan and reltime regression tests.

Hi All,

Here are a couple of patches to the regression tests to introduce
some specific ordering to the results.

I've only made changes to the queries that were exhibiting differences
on my regression runs.

This will also have the side effect of testing the ordering code for
the boolean and some of the time types.

Subject: [PATCHES] New INSTALL file.

I have created a much more comprehensive version of the
/usr/src/pgsql/INSTALL file.  It should replace the current 970428 version
of this file.

Subject: [PATCHES] libpq SET var TO patch

  One last, I hope. This one corrects a bogus format string, and
actually sends the contents of PG_DATESTYLE to the backend. That
means, you can do a setenv PG_DATESTYLE 'iso', and your libpq
will pick that up and tell the backend.

Subject: [PATCHES] port patch: ultrix4

ultrix4 doesn't compile without this.  this also fixes a problem
with dynamic loading (ultrix relocatable objects must be loaded
with -G 0).

Subject: [PATCHES] Three small patches.

Hi,

Here are 3 small patches to the postgreSQL source sup'd on
the 6th May 1997.

The 1st 2 fix the shell backslash "c" handling used to suppress
the newline on some unix shells. (The \c needs to be inside quote.)

The 3rd may or may not be the correct way to fix the missing
define of INDEX_MAX_KEYS in pg_dump.h

Subject: [PATCHES] oracle_compat functions core dumping on NULL-fields

return if storage is not allocated. Ref: Vadim 97/05/01

No real change in the support code is required since the actual size
 of the structures is calculated using offsetof() rather than sizeof().