Here are the latest changes to the INSTALL instructions.
The main changes are:
- Step 5, on flex
- Steps 18 and 19, on regression tests
- Step 22 c) on starting postmaster on bootup on FreeBSD
- Added porting notes for SPARC/Linux at end.
If there is time, Thomas should review step 19.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Edmund Mergl
Thomas G. Lockhart
Marc G. Fournier
Bruce Momjian
Vadim B. Mikheev