Stamp for 7.3 beta3.

HISTORY

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Migration to version 7.3
 
 Changes
 
-2002-09-23
+2002-10-23
 
 Server Operation
 ================
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ Make WITHOUT OID actually save four bytes per row (Manfred Koizar)
 Add GUC default_statistics_target variable to specify ANALYZE buckets (Neil)
 Use local buffer cache for temporary tables so no WAL overhead (Tom)
 Improve free space map performance on large tables (Stephen Marshall, Tom)
+Improved WAL write concurrency (Tom)
 
 Privileges
 ==========
@@ -226,6 +227,7 @@ Fix foreign key constraints to not error on intermediate db states (Stephan)
 Propagate column or table renaming to foreign key constraints
 Add CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW (Gavin, Neil, Tom)
 Add CREATE OR REPLACE RULE (Gavin, Neil, Tom)
+Have rules execute alphabetically, returning more accurate values (Tom)
 
 Utility Commands
 ================
@@ -254,7 +256,7 @@ Fix CLUSTER to preserve all table attributes (Alvaro Herrera)
 New pg_settings table to view/modify GUC settings (Joe)
 Add smart quoting, portability improvements to pg_dump output (Peter)
 Dump serial columns out as SERIAL (Tom)
-Enable large file support, >2G for pg_dump (Peter)
+Enable large file support, >2G for pg_dump (Peter, Philip Warner, Bruce)
 Disallow TRUNCATE on tables that are involved in referential constraints (Rod)
 Have TRUNCATE also auto-truncate the toast table of the relation (Tom)
 Add clusterdb utility that will auto-cluster an entire database based on
@@ -262,6 +264,8 @@ Add clusterdb utility that will auto-cluster an entire database based on
 Overhaul pg_dumpall (Peter)
 Allow REINDEX of TOAST tables (Tom)
 Implemented START TRANSACTION, per SQL99 (Neil)
+Fix rare index corruption when a page split affects bulk delete (Tom)
+Fix ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN for inheritance (Alvaro Herrera)
 
 Data Types and Functions
 ========================
@@ -337,6 +341,7 @@ Overhaul the PL/pgSQL FOUND variable to be more Oracle-compatible (Tom, Neil)
 Allow PL/pgSQL to handle quoted identifiers (Tom)
 Allow set-returning PL/pgSQL functions (Neil)
 Make PL/pgSQL schema-aware (Joe)
+Remove some memory leaks (Nigel J. Andrews, Tom)
 
 Psql
 ====
@@ -350,6 +355,7 @@ Allow psql \d to show temporary table structure (Tom)
 Allow psql \d to show foreign keys (Rod)
 Fix \? to honor \pset pager (Bruce)
 Have psql reports its version number on startup (Tom)
+Allow \copy to specify column names (Tom)
 
 Libpq
 =====
@@ -411,6 +417,7 @@ AIX SMP hang fix (Tomoyuki Niijima)
 Fix pre-1970 date handling on newer glibc libraries (Tom)
 Fix PowerPC SMP locking (Tom)
 Prevent gcc -ffast-math from being used (Tom)
+Bison >= 1.50 now required for developer builds
 
 Source Code
 ===========

configure

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
-# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53 for PostgreSQL 7.3b2.
+# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53 for PostgreSQL 7.3b3.
 #
 # Report bugs to <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>.
 #
@@ -258,8 +258,8 @@ SHELL=${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh}
 # Identity of this package.
 PACKAGE_NAME='PostgreSQL'
 PACKAGE_TARNAME='postgresql'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='7.3b2'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='7.3b3'
-PACKAGE_STRING='PostgreSQL 7.3b2'
+PACKAGE_STRING='PostgreSQL 7.3b3'
 PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org'
 
 ac_unique_file="src/backend/access/common/heaptuple.c"
@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ if test "$ac_init_help" = "long"; then
   # Omit some internal or obsolete options to make the list less imposing.
   # This message is too long to be a string in the A/UX 3.1 sh.
   cat <<_ACEOF
-\`configure' configures PostgreSQL 7.3b2 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+\`configure' configures PostgreSQL 7.3b3 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
 
 Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
 
@@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ fi
 
 if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
   case $ac_init_help in
-     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of PostgreSQL 7.3b2:";;
+     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of PostgreSQL 7.3b3:";;
    esac
   cat <<\_ACEOF
 
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ fi
 test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit 0
 if $ac_init_version; then
   cat <<\_ACEOF
-PostgreSQL configure 7.3b2
+PostgreSQL configure 7.3b3
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53
 
 Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
@@ -966,7 +966,7 @@ cat >&5 <<_ACEOF
 This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
 running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
 
-It was created by PostgreSQL $as_me 7.3b2, which was
+It was created by PostgreSQL $as_me 7.3b3, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53.  Invocation command line was
 
   $ $0 $@
@@ -16107,7 +16107,7 @@ _ASBOX
 } >&5
 cat >&5 <<_CSEOF
 
-This file was extended by PostgreSQL $as_me 7.3b2, which was
+This file was extended by PostgreSQL $as_me 7.3b3, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53.  Invocation command line was
 
   CONFIG_FILES    = $CONFIG_FILES
@@ -16169,7 +16169,7 @@ _ACEOF
 
 cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF
 ac_cs_version="\\
-PostgreSQL config.status 7.3b2
+PostgreSQL config.status 7.3b3
 configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53,
   with options \\"`echo "$ac_configure_args" | sed 's/[\\""\`\$]/\\\\&/g'`\\"
 

configure.in

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-dnl $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/configure.in,v 1.214 2002/10/24 01:33:50 momjian Exp $
+dnl $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/configure.in,v 1.215 2002/10/24 03:03:37 momjian Exp $
 dnl
 dnl Developers, please strive to achieve this order:
 dnl
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ dnl The GNU folks apparently haven't heard that some people don't use
 dnl Texinfo. Use this sorcery to use "docdir" instead of "infodir".
 m4_define([info], [doc])
 m4_define([infodir], [docdir])
-AC_INIT([PostgreSQL], [7.3b2], [pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org])
+AC_INIT([PostgreSQL], [7.3b3], [pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org])
 m4_undefine([infodir])
 m4_undefine([info])
 AC_SUBST(docdir)

register.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 
-(2002-02-04)
 PostgreSQL has a web site at http://www.postgresql.org/ which carries details
 on the latest release, upcoming features, and other information to make your
 work or play with PostgreSQL more productive.