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Marc G. Fournier 812a6c2b54 - Move most of the I/O in both libpq and the backend to a set
of common routines in pqcomprim.c (pq communication primitives).
    Not all adapted to it yet, but it's a start.

  - Rewritten some of those routines, to write/read bigger chunks of
    data, precomputing stuff in buffers instead of sending out byte
    by byte.

  - As a consequence, I need to know the endianness of the machine.
    Currently I rely on getting it from machine/endian.h, but this
    may not be available everywhere? (Who the hell thought it was
    a good idea to pass integers to the backend the other way around
    than the normal network byte order? *argl*)

  - Libpq looks in the environment for magic variables, and upon
    establishing a connection to the backend, sends it queries
    of the form "SET var_name TO 'var_value'". This needs a change
    in the backend parser (Mr. Parser, are you there? :)

  - Currently it looks for two Env-Vars, namely PG_DATEFORMAT
    and PG_FLOATFORMAT. What else makes sense? PG_TIMEFORMAT?
    PG_TIMEZONE?

From: "Martin J. Laubach" <mjl@wwx.vip.at>
1997-03-18 20:15:39 +00:00
contrib Add in Vadim's multikey functions/examples as part of contrib 1997-03-18 18:31:43 +00:00
doc Move nextstep into problem/bug section. 1997-03-06 22:59:47 +00:00
migration New migration file. 1997-01-08 22:33:46 +00:00
src - Move most of the I/O in both libpq and the backend to a set 1997-03-18 20:15:39 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Change Postgres95 references to PostgreSQL 1997-01-30 03:59:44 +00:00
HISTORY Add v6.1/Enhancements Section...or at least start it 1997-02-19 13:18:48 +00:00
INSTALL Move nextstep into problem/bug section. 1997-03-06 22:59:47 +00:00
README Convert Postgres95 to PostgreSQL 1997-01-30 04:00:50 +00:00

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