Create a script to handle stamping release version numbers into files,

replacing the tedious and error-prone manual process we've been using.

src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES

@@ -1,20 +1,10 @@
  
-* Beta and Release Candidate (RC) changes
-	o configure.in, and run autoconf or update configure
-	o doc/bug.template
-	o src/include/pg_config.h.win32
-
 * Version numbers
-	o configure.in, and run autoconf or update configure
-	o doc/bug.template
+	o update doc/FAQ and doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
+	o run src/tools/version_stamp.pl, then run autoconf (by packager)
 	o bump library versions
 		- src/interfaces/*/Makefile (major releases only)
 		- src/interfaces/*/*/Makefile (major releases only)
-	o bump interface version numbers
-		- src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc.in (major and minor releases)
-		- src/include/pg_config.h.win32 (major and minor releases)
-		- src/port/win32ver.rc (major and minor releases)
-	o update doc/FAQ and doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
 
 * Release notes
 	o scan cvs logs, use pgcvslog and flags in comments

src/tools/version_stamp.pl

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+#! /usr/bin/perl -w
+
+#################################################################
+# version_stamp.pl -- update version stamps throughout the source tree
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2008, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
+#
+# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/tools/version_stamp.pl,v 1.1.6.1 2008/06/10 18:09:08 tgl Exp $
+#################################################################
+
+#
+# This script updates the version stamp in configure.in, and also in assorted
+# other files wherein it's not convenient to obtain the version number from
+# configure's output.  Note that you still have to run autoconf afterward
+# to regenerate configure from the updated configure.in.
+#
+# Usage: cd to top of source tree and issue
+#	src/tools/version_stamp.pl MINORVERSION
+# where MINORVERSION can be a minor release number (0, 1, etc), or
+# "devel", "betaN", "rcN".
+#
+
+# Major version is hard-wired into the script.  We update it when we branch
+# a new development version.
+$major1 = 8;
+$major2 = 1;
+
+# Validate argument and compute derived variables
+$minor = shift;
+defined($minor) || die "$0: missing required argument: minor-version\n";
+
+if ($minor =~ m/^\d+$/) {
+    $dotneeded = 1;
+    $numericminor = $minor;
+} elsif ($minor eq "devel") {
+    $dotneeded = 0;
+    $numericminor = 0;
+} elsif ($minor =~ m/^beta\d+$/) {
+    $dotneeded = 0;
+    $numericminor = 0;
+} elsif ($minor =~ m/^rc\d+$/) {
+    $dotneeded = 0;
+    $numericminor = 0;
+} else {
+    die "$0: minor-version must be N, devel, betaN, or rcN\n";
+}
+
+# Create various required forms of the version number
+$majorversion = $major1 . "." . $major2;
+if ($dotneeded) {
+    $fullversion = $majorversion . "." . $minor;
+} else {
+    $fullversion = $majorversion . $minor;
+}
+$numericversion = $majorversion . "." . $numericminor;
+
+# Get the autoconf version number for eventual nag message
+# (this also ensures we're in the right directory)
+
+$aconfver = "";
+open(FILE, "configure.in") || die "could not read configure.in: $!\n";
+while (<FILE>) {
+    if (m/^m4_if\(m4_defn\(\[m4_PACKAGE_VERSION\]\), \[(.*)\], \[\], \[m4_fatal/) {
+        $aconfver = $1;
+	last;
+    }
+}
+close(FILE);
+$aconfver ne "" || die "could not find autoconf version number in configure.in\n";
+
+# Update configure.in and other files that contain version numbers
+
+$fixedfiles = "";
+
+sed_file("configure.in",
+	 "-e 's/AC_INIT(\\[PostgreSQL\\], \\[[0-9a-z.]*\\]/AC_INIT([PostgreSQL], [$fullversion]/'");
+
+sed_file("doc/bug.template",
+	 "-e 's/PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL .*) *:  PostgreSQL .*/PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL $fullversion):  PostgreSQL $fullversion/'");
+
+sed_file("src/include/pg_config.h.win32",
+	 "-e 's/#define PG_VERSION \".*\"/#define PG_VERSION \"$fullversion\"/' " .
+	 "-e 's/#define PG_VERSION_STR \".* (win32)\"/#define PG_VERSION_STR \"$fullversion (win32)\"/'");
+
+sed_file("src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc.in",
+	 "-e 's/FILEVERSION [0-9]*,[0-9]*,[0-9]*,0/FILEVERSION $major1,$major2,$numericminor,0/' " .
+	 "-e 's/PRODUCTVERSION [0-9]*,[0-9]*,[0-9]*,0/PRODUCTVERSION $major1,$major2,$numericminor,0/' " .
+	 "-e 's/VALUE \"FileVersion\", \"[0-9.]*/VALUE \"FileVersion\", \"$numericversion/' " .
+	 "-e 's/VALUE \"ProductVersion\", \"[0-9.]*/VALUE \"ProductVersion\", \"$numericversion/'");
+
+sed_file("src/port/win32ver.rc",
+	 "-e 's/FILEVERSION    [0-9]*,[0-9]*,[0-9]*,0/FILEVERSION    $major1,$major2,$numericminor,0/' " .
+	 "-e 's/PRODUCTVERSION [0-9]*,[0-9]*,[0-9]*,0/PRODUCTVERSION $major1,$major2,$numericminor,0/'");
+
+print "Stamped these files with version number $fullversion:\n$fixedfiles";
+print "Don't forget to run autoconf $aconfver before committing.\n";
+
+exit 0;
+
+sub sed_file {
+    my($filename, $sedargs) = @_;
+    my($tmpfilename) = $filename . ".tmp";
+
+    system("sed $sedargs $filename >$tmpfilename") == 0
+      or die "sed failed: $?";
+    system("mv $tmpfilename $filename") == 0
+      or die "mv failed: $?";
+
+    $fixedfiles .= "\t$filename\n";
+}