postgresql/contrib/miscutil
Peter Eisentraut 74618e2b82 Another round of those unportable config/build changes :-/
* Add option to build with OpenSSL out of the box. Fix thusly exposed
  bit rot. Although it compiles now, getting this to do something
  useful is left as an exercise.

* Fix Kerberos options to defer checking for required libraries until
  all the other libraries are checked for.

* Change default odbcinst.ini and krb5.srvtab path to PREFIX/etc.

* Install work around for Autoconf's install-sh relative path anomaly.
  Get rid of old INSTL_*_OPTS variables, now that we don't need them
  anymore.

* Use `gunzip -c' instead of g?zcat. Reportedly broke on AIX.

* Look for only one of readline.h or readline/readline.h, not both.

* Make check for PS_STRINGS cacheable. Don't test for the header files
  separately.

* Disable fcntl(F_SETLK) test on Linux.

* Substitute the standard GCC warnings set into CFLAGS in configure,
  don't add it on in Makefile.global.

* Sweep through contrib tree to teach makefiles standard semantics.

... and in completely unrelated news:

* Make postmaster.opts arbitrary options-aware. I still think we need to
  save the environment as well.
2000-07-09 13:14:19 +00:00
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Makefile Another round of those unportable config/build changes :-/ 2000-07-09 13:14:19 +00:00
README.misc_utils Add missing /contrib files 2000-06-19 14:02:16 +00:00
misc_utils.c Fix misuse of StrNCpy to copy and add null to non-null-terminated data. 2000-07-07 21:12:53 +00:00
misc_utils.h Ye-old pgindent run. Same 4-space tabs. 2000-04-12 17:17:23 +00:00
misc_utils.sql.in Hi, 1999-06-05 19:09:48 +00:00

README.misc_utils

Miscellaneous utility functions for PostgreSQL.
Copyright (C) 1999, Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License
either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

query_limit(n)

	sets a limit on the maximum numbers of query returned from
	a backend. It can be used to limit the result size retrieved
	by the application for poor input data or to avoid accidental
	table product while playying with sql.
 
backend_pid()

	return the pid of our corresponding backend.

unlisten(relname)

	unlisten from a relation or from all relations if the argument
	is null, empty or '*'.
	It is now obsoleted by the new unlisten command but still useful
	if you want unlisten a name computed by the query.
	Note that a listen/notify relname can be any ascii string, not
	just valid relation names.

min(x,y)
max(x,y)

	return the min or max bteween two integers.

assert_enable(bool)

	enable/disable assert checkings in the backend, if it has been
	compiled with USE_ASSERT_CHECKING.

assert_test(bool)

	test the assert enable/disable code, if the backend has been
	compiled with ASSERT_CHECKING_TEST.

-- 
Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>