> There are two capabilities here, first the ability to build from a
> source directory that contains spaces, and second the ability to install
> into a directory that contains spaces. The first is probably not
> possible because 'gmake' and other compiler tools do not fully support
> spaces in path names. The second is possible with proper quoting in
> the makefiles. Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it
> is possible to install into a directory that doesn't contain spaces and
> then copy the install to a directory with spaces.
< o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which which PostgreSQL supports
> o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which PostgreSQL supports
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>
> To fix UTF8, the data needs to be converted to UTF16 and then
> the Win32 strcoll() can be used.
Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to
extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything
where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the
generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only
picked up the right entries ...
> * Improve the background writer
>
> Allow the background writer to more efficiently write dirty buffers
> from the end of the LRU cache and use a clock sweep algorithm to
> write other dirty buffers to reduced checkpoint I/O
that is, files are sought in the same directory as the referencing file.
Also allow absolute paths in @file constructs. Improve documentation
to actually say what is allowed in an included file.
numbering is different than TO_CHAR's ditto. EXTRACT starts at 0==Sunday
while TO_CHAR starts at 1==Sunday.
A suggestion for two documentation notes is attached as a patch to
current CVS HEAD.
Troels Arvin
several reports of users being confused when they attempt to use ELSEIF
and run into trouble due to PL/PgSQL's lax parser. The parser will be
improved for 8.1, but we can fix most of the problem by allowing ELSEIF
for now.
