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tag v9.0.0 ... the big day approaches

Introduce latches. A latch is a boolean variable, with the capability to
wait until it is set. Latches can be used to reliably wait until a signal
arrives, which is hard otherwise because signals don't interrupt select()
on some platforms, and even when they do, there's race conditions.

On Unix, latches use the so called self-pipe trick under the covers to
implement the sleep until the latch is set, without race conditions. On
Windows, Windows events are used.

Use the new latch abstraction to sleep in walsender, so that as soon as
a transaction finishes, walsender is woken up to immediately send the WAL
to the standby. This reduces the latency between master and standby, which
is good.

Preliminary work by Fujii Masao. The latch implementation is by me, with
helpful comments from many people.

tag rc1 ... final stretch ...

tag for beta4

Stamp HEAD as 9.1devel.
(And there was much rejoicing.)

tag beta3

Split the LDFLAGS make variable into two parts: LDFLAGS is now used for
linking both executables and shared libraries, and we add on LDFLAGS_EX when
linking executables or LDFLAGS_SL when linking shared libraries.  This
provides a significantly cleaner way of dealing with link-time switches than
the former behavior.  Also, make sure that the various platform-specific
%.so: %.o rules incorporate LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS_SL; most of them missed that
before.  (I did not add these variables for the platforms that invoke $(LD)
directly, however.  It's not clear if we can do that safely, since for the
most part we assume these variables use CC command-line syntax.)

Per gripe from Aaron Swenson and subsequent investigation.

tag 9.0beta2

Replace self written 'long long int' configure test by standard 'AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT' macro call.

Added a configure test for "long long" datatypes. So far this is only used in ecpg and replaces the old test that was kind of hackish.

tag 7.4.29

tag 8.0.25

tag 8.1.21

tag 8.2.17

tag 8.3.11

tag 8.4.4

Fix up lame idea of not using autoconf to determine if platform has scandir().
Should fix buildfarm failures.

tag for 9.0beta1

Version stamp 9.0alpha5.

Don't link PL/Python against LOCALMODLIBS

This variable is apparently only for Python internally.  In newer releases
of Python this variable pulls in more and more libraries that users are
less likely to have, leading to potential build failures.

tag 7.4.28

tag 8.0.24, not .23

tag 8.1.20

tag 8.2.16

tag 8.3.10

tag 8.4.3

Fix configure's regexp for extracting the Perl version number from perl -v
output.  Per bug #5339, Perl 5.11 has changed the format of that output
enough to break the previous coding.

Alex Hunsaker

Revert configure warning to use "official distribution".

Use the term "bundled distribution" instead of "official distribution" in
configure warnings.

Version stamp 9.0alpha4
(in the right branch)

Revert version stamping in wrong branch

Version stamp 9.0alpha4

Stamp HEAD as 9.0devel, and update various places that were referring to 8.5
(hope I got 'em all).  Per discussion, this release will be 9.0 not 8.5.

Support inlining various small performance-critical functions on non-GCC
compilers, by applying a configure check to see if the compiler will accept
an unreferenced "static inline foo ..." function without warnings.  It is
believed that such warnings are the only reason not to declare inlined
functions in headers, if the compiler understands "inline" at all.

Kurt Harriman

Re-order configure tests to reflect the fact that the code generated for
posix_fadvise and other file-related functions can depend on _LARGEFILE_SOURCE
and/or _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.  Per report from Robert Treat.

Back-patch to 8.4.  This has been wrong all along, but we weren't really using
posix_fadvise in anger before, and AC_FUNC_FSEEKO seems to mask the issue well
enough for that function.

Re-order configure tests to reflect the fact that the code generated for
posix_fadvise and other file-related functions can depend on _LARGEFILE_SOURCE
and/or _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.  Per report from Robert Treat.

Back-patch to 8.4.  This has been wrong all along, but we weren't really using
posix_fadvise in anger before, and AC_FUNC_FSEEKO seems to mask the issue well
enough for that function.

Fail in a nicer way if we have --with-perl and no Perl.

Make configure check the version of Perl we're building with, and reject
versions < 5.8.  Also, if there's no Perl, emit a warning informing the
user that he won't be able to build from a CVS pull.  This is exactly the
same treatment we give Bison and Perl, and for the same reasons.

Alter the configure script to fail immediately if the C compiler does not
provide a working 64-bit integer datatype.  As recently noted, we've been
broken on such platforms since early in the 8.4 development cycle.  Since
it took nearly two years for anyone to even notice, it seems that the
rationale for continuing to support such platforms has reached the point
of non-existence.  Rather than thrashing around to try to make it work
again, we'll just admit up front that this no longer works.

Back-patch to 8.4 since that branch is also broken.

We should go around to remove INT64_IS_BUSTED support, but just in HEAD,
so that seems like material for a separate commit.

Alter the configure script to fail immediately if the C compiler does not
provide a working 64-bit integer datatype.  As recently noted, we've been
broken on such platforms since early in the 8.4 development cycle.  Since
it took nearly two years for anyone to even notice, it seems that the
rationale for continuing to support such platforms has reached the point
of non-existence.  Rather than thrashing around to try to make it work
again, we'll just admit up front that this no longer works.

Back-patch to 8.4 since that branch is also broken.

We should go around to remove INT64_IS_BUSTED support, but just in HEAD,
so that seems like material for a separate commit.

Update copyright for the year 2010.

Redefine Datum as uintptr_t, instead of unsigned long.

This is more in keeping with modern practice, and is a first step towards
porting to Win64 (which has sizeof(pointer) > sizeof(long)).

Tsutomu Yamada, Magnus Hagander, Tom Lane

Version stamp 8.5alpha3

Python 3 support in PL/Python

Behaves more or less unchanged compared to Python 2, but the new language
variant is called plpython3u.  Documentation describing the naming scheme
is included.

Properly define ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY in conflgure, per suggestion from Peter.

tag 7.4.27

tag 8.0.23

tag 8.1.19

tag 8.2.15

tag 8.3.9

tag for 8.4.2

thread-safety

Apply full patch to enable thread-safety by default, e.g. doc changes.

Enable thread safety

Enable thread safety on all platforms.  This will either be followed up
by a more extensive patch, or reverted, depending on the build farm
results.

THREAD_SUPPORT

There is no reference to THREAD_SUPPORT outside configure, and it is
never set, so remove it.

Version stamp 8.5alpha2

In the configure check for the Python distutils module, use a less obscure
shell construct to hide away the stderr output.  Python 3.1 actually core
dumps on the current invocation (http://bugs.python.org/issue7111), but the
new version also has the more general advantage of saving the error message
in config.log for analysis.

Support "samehost" and "samenet" specifications in pg_hba.conf,
by enumerating the machine's IP interfaces to look for a match.

Stef Walter

Write psql's ~/.psql_history file using history_truncate_file() and
append_history(), if libreadline is new enough to have those functions
(they seem to be present at least since 4.2; but libedit may not have them).
This gives significantly saner behavior when two or more sessions overlap in
their use of the history file; although having two sessions exit at just the
same time is still perilous to your history.  The behavior of \s remains
unchanged, ie, overwrite whatever was there.
Per bug #5052 from Marek W�jtowicz.

Remove any -arch switches given in ExtUtils::Embed's ldopts from our
perl_embed_ldflags setting.  On OS X it seems that ExtUtils::Embed is
trying to force a universal binary to be built, but you need to specify
that a lot further upstream if you want Postgres built that way; the only
result of including -arch in perl_embed_ldflags is some warnings at the
plperl.so link step.  Per my complaint and Jan Otto's suggestion.

Replace use of the long-deprecated Bonjour API DNSServiceRegistrationCreate
with the not-so-deprecated DNSServiceRegister.  This patch shouldn't change
any user-visible behavior, it just gets rid of a deprecation warning in
--with-bonjour builds.  The new code will fail on OS X releases before 10.3,
but it seems unlikely that anyone will want to run Postgres 8.5 on 10.2.

Tag 7.4.26

Tag 8.0.22

Tag 8.1.18

Tag 8.2.14

Tag 8.3.8

Tag 8.4.1

Update of install-sh, mkinstalldirs, and associated configury

Update install-sh to that from Autoconf 2.63, plus our Darwin-specific
changes (which I simplified a bit).  install-sh is now able to install
multiple files in one run, so we could simplify our makefiles sometime.

install-sh also now has a -d option to create directories, so we don't need
mkinstalldirs anymore.

Use AC_PROG_MKDIR_P in configure.in, so we can use mkdir -p when available
instead of install-sh -d.  For consistency with the rest of the world,
the corresponding make variable has been renamed from $(mkinstalldirs) to
$(MKDIR_P).

Version stamp 8.5alpha1

Use DocBook XSL stylesheets for man page building

This switches the man page building process to use the DocBook XSL stylesheet
toolchain.  The previous targets for Docbook2X are removed. configure has been
updated to look for the new tools.  The Documentation appendix contains the
new build instructions.  There are also a few isolated tweaks in the
documentation to improve places that came out strangely in the man pages.

Add commentary about Cygwin's broken erand48, per report from Andrew Dunstan.

Force use of our erand48 on Cygwin

Add erand48() to the set of functions supported by our src/port/ library,
and extend configure to test for it properly instead of hard-wiring
an assumption that everybody but Windows has the rand48 functions.
(We do cheat to the extent of assuming that probing for erand48 will do
for the entire rand48 family.)

erand48() is unused as of this commit, but a followon patch will cause
GEQO to depend on it.

Andres Freund, additional hacking by Tom

Make the configure messages rejecting old bison and flex versions include
the full path and version of the program being rejected.

Advance the minimum required version of "flex" from 2.5.4 to 2.5.31, and
update documentation accordingly.  This is required in order to have support
for a reentrant scanner.  I'm committing this bit separately in order to have
an easy reference if we later decide to make the minimum something different
(like 2.5.33).

Upgrade to Autoconf 2.63

This upgrades the configure infrastructure to the latest Autoconf version.
Some notable news are:
 - The workaround for the broken fseeko() test is gone.
 - Checking for unknown options is now provided by Autoconf itself.
 - Fixes for Mac OS X

Stamp HEAD as 8.5devel.

Bundle v8.4.0

bundle RC2

time to tag rc1 ...

Fix ill-advised whitespace prettification, per buildfarm.

Support Kerberos on platforms where libcom_err depends on OpenSSL, as
reportedly is true on OpenBSD.  Also support OpenBSD's spelling of
-Wl,--as-needed.  Per Simon Bertrang.

Add documentation string for LDFLAGS_SL in configure --help output.

commit for BETA2

commit and tag beta1

Disable effective_io_concurrency on Solaris because posix_fadvise() is
no-op on that platform.

Make an attempt at fixing our current Solaris 11 breakage: add a configure
probe for opterr (exactly like the one for optreset) and have getopt.c
define the variables only if configure doesn't find them in libc.

On Solaris, we should only force use of our own getopt(); it's okay to use
the system's getopt_long().  The previous coding was the result of a sloppy
discussion that failed to draw this distinction.  The result was that PG
programs don't handle options as users of that platform expect.  Per
gripe from Chuck McDevitt.

Although this is a pre-existing bug, I'm not backpatching since I think we
could do with a bit of beta testing before concluding this is really OK.

tag 7.4.25

tag 8.0.21

tag 8.1.17

tag 8.2.13

tag 8.3.7

do not use unsetenv.c on mingw

Tweak configure to attempt to add -qnoansialias to CFLAGS whenever running
on AIX with a non-gcc compiler.  The previous coding would do this only if
CC was exactly "xlc"; which is a bad idea, as demonstrated by trouble report
from Mihai Criveti.

allow alternative names for tclsh used on Windows

commit first then tag 8.0.20

tag 7.4.24

tagging 8.1.16

tag 8.2.12

tag for 8.3.6

Recreate ecpg_config.h with a stamp file created by config.status, same
way pg_config.h is handled.  This avoids reruns of config.status on every
build, if configure has been rerun.

Make win32 builds always do SetEnvironmentVariable() when doing putenv().
Also, if linked against other versions than the default MSVCRT library
(for example the MSVC build which links against MSVCRT80), also update
the cache in the default MSVCRT at the same time.

This should fix the issues with setting LC_MESSAGES on the MSVC build.

Original patch from Hiroshi Inoue and Hiroshi Saito, much rewritten
by me.

Check nsl library for gethostbyname_r() on all platforms (HP-UX uses it
too).

Renable threading build for Solaris 2.5, per report from Andrew Chernow

Re-enable the old code in xlog.c that tried to use posix_fadvise(), so that
we can get some buildfarm feedback about whether that function is still
problematic.  (Note that the planned async-preread patch will not really
prove anything one way or the other in buildfarm testing, since it will
be inactive with default GUC settings.)

Produce a full version string for Sun Studio.
from Zdenek

Update MinGW so it handles fseeko() similar to Unix.

Remove references to pgsql-ports and pgsql-patches mailing lists from
various documentation, since those lists are now dead/deprecated.
Point to pgsql-bugs and/or pgsql-hackers as appropriate.

Remove references to pgsql-ports and pgsql-patches mailing lists from
various documentation, since those lists are now dead/deprecated.
Point to pgsql-bugs and/or pgsql-hackers as appropriate.

Remove references to pgsql-ports and pgsql-patches mailing lists from
various documentation, since those lists are now dead/deprecated.
Point to pgsql-bugs and/or pgsql-hackers as appropriate.

Remove references to pgsql-ports and pgsql-patches mailing lists from
various documentation, since those lists are now dead/deprecated.
Point to pgsql-bugs and/or pgsql-hackers as appropriate.

Remove references to pgsql-ports and pgsql-patches mailing lists from
various documentation, since those lists are now dead/deprecated.
Point to pgsql-bugs and/or pgsql-hackers as appropriate.

Remove references to pgsql-ports and pgsql-patches mailing lists from
various documentation, since those lists are now dead/deprecated.
Point to pgsql-bugs and/or pgsql-hackers as appropriate.

Doesn't seem like a good idea to be doing AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(void *) so much
earlier than all the other sizeof checks, and it certainly fails to follow
the order suggested at the file head.  Rearrange.

Update SELECT version() to show whether it is a 32 or 64-bit backend binary.

When cross-compiling, allow and require an external zic program to be used
when --with-system-tzdata is not used.

initial patch by Richard Evans

Allow configure to deal with Python 3.0.  Changes were:

print foo --> print(foo)
string.join(...) --> ' '.join(...)

These changes are backward compatible.

The actual plpython module appears to need significant updates to support
Python 3.0, though.  This change just relieves interested developers from
having to deal with Autoconf.

Update copyright for 2009.

Append major version number and for libraries soname major version number
to the gettext domain name, to simplify parallel installations.

Also, rename set_text_domain() to pg_bindtextdomain(), because that is what
it does.

Set up ar, dlltool, dllwrap, and windres for cross-compiling if necessary.
Plus some makefile cleanup.

part of a patch from Richard Evans

Change wildcard cerfificate mapping to be much simler - we now only match
the * character at the beginning of a pattern, and it does not match
subdomains.

Since this means we no longer need fnmatch, remove the imported implementation
from port, along with the autoconf check for it.

configure check for docbook2man program, used in the new XML-based man
page build target.  This covers from-source, Debian, and Fedora
installation variants.

Add support for matching wildcard server certificates to the new SSL code.

This uses the function fnmatch() which is not available on all platforms
(notably Windows), so import the implementation from NetBSD into src/port.

Ident authentication over Unix-domain sockets on Solaris, using
getpeerucred() function.

Author: Garick Hamlin <[email protected]>

Detect and error out on inability to get proper linkage information required for plperl, usually due to absence of perl ExtUtils::Embed module. Backpatch as far as 8.1.

Detect and error out on inability to get proper linkage information required for plperl, usually due to absence of perl ExtUtils::Embed module. Backpatch as far as 8.1.

Detect and error out on inability to get proper linkage information required for plperl, usually due to absence of perl ExtUtils::Embed module. Backpatch as far as 8.1.

Detect and error out on inability to get proper linkage information required for plperl, usually due to absence of perl ExtUtils::Embed module. Backpatch as far as 8.1.

tag 7.4.23

tag for 8.0.19

tag 8.1.15

tag 8.2.11

commit for 8.3.5

Missing space in error message

Missing space in error message

Missing space in error message

Missing space in error message

Missing space in error message

Move forgotten comment closer to where it matters.

Support for Sun Studio compiler on Linux

This basically takes some build system code that was previously labeled
"Solaris" and ties it to the compiler rather than the operating system.

Author: Julius Stroffek <[email protected]>

Use Autoconf provided AS_HELP_STRING macro to automatically format and
align strings in the --help output.  Do this through our abstraction layer
to eliminate redundancy and randomness in configure.in.

tag for 7.4.22

tag for 8.0.18

tag for 8.1.14

tag for 8.2.10

tag for 8.3.4

Check for gcov and lcov only when coverage testing is enabled.

Code coverage testing with gcov.  Documentation is in the regression test
chapter.

Author: Michelle Caisse <[email protected]>

Add DSSSL stylesheet location for Mac OS X/Fink installation.

Remove all traces that suggest that a non-Bison yacc might be supported, and
change build system to use only Bison.  Simplify build rules, make file names
uniform.  Don't build the token table header file where it is not needed.

Autoconf 2.62 will require cache variables to contain "_cv_".  Fix our few
noncomplying cases to be future-proof.

Remove -Winline from the default set of CFLAGS for gcc.  It's gotten much
too noisy to be useful as of gcc 4.3, and we were never really doing
anything about inlining warnings anyway.

Cope with Tcl versions that do not create a tclsh symlink to the version-
numbered program.  Per persistent buildfarm failures.

Tom Lane

Abort if Tcl support was configured and no tcl shell was found.
This is required because the value is substituted into the pltcl_*mod
scripts.

Modify the recently-added probe for -Wl,--as-needed some more, because RHEL-4
vintage Linux is even more broken than we realized: a link to libreadline
will succeed, and fail only at runtime.  It seems that an AC_TRY_RUN test
is the only reliable way to check whether this is really safe.  Per report
from Tatsuo.

tag 8.1.13

tag 8.3.3

tag 8.2.9

tag 8.0.17

tag 7.4.21

tag 7.4.20

tag 8.0.16

tag for 8.1.12

tag 8.2.8

tag for 8.3.2

Require bind_textdomain_codeset() not just gettext() to enable NLS support.
GNU gettext before 0.10.36 does not have that function, and is generally too
incomplete to be usable.

Require bind_textdomain_codeset() not just gettext() to enable NLS support.
GNU gettext before 0.10.36 does not have that function, and is generally too
incomplete to be usable.

Require bind_textdomain_codeset() not just gettext() to enable NLS support.
GNU gettext before 0.10.36 does not have that function, and is generally too
incomplete to be usable.

Adjust -Wl,--asneeded test to avoid using the switch if it breaks
libreadline.  What we will do for compatibility :-(

Make another try at using -Wl,--as-needed to suppress linking of unnecessary
shared libraries.  We've tried this before and had problems with libreadline
not linking properly on some platforms, but that seems to be a libreadline
bug that may have been fixed by now.  In any case, it's early enough in the
8.4 devel cycle that we can afford to have some transient breakage while
we work out any portability problems.

On Darwin, we try -Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs, which seems to be the equivalent
incantation there.

Provide for MSVC config equivalents of recently added configure options. Remove
any hardcoding of those options. Along the way, reorder the expression used to
calculate RELSEG_SIZE to make it slightly clearer. For now wal_segsize is only
allowed to have a value of 1 on Windows - we can relax that when we get full
large file support in the backend.

Extend yesterday's patch making BLCKSZ and RELSEG_SIZE configurable to also
let XLOG_BLCKSZ and XLOG_SEG_SIZE be set via configure.  Per a proposal by
Mark Wong, though I thought it better to call the switches after "wal" rather
than "xlog".

Remove the recently added USE_SEGMENTED_FILES option, and indeed remove all
support for a nonsegmented mode from md.c.  Per recent discussions, there
doesn't seem to be much value in a "never segment" option as opposed to
segmenting with a suitably large segment size.  So instead provide a
configure-time switch to set the desired segment size in units of gigabytes.
While at it, expose a configure switch for BLCKSZ as well.

Zdenek Kotala

Fix broken configure test for libxslt: it was probing for xsltLibxmlVersion,
which is a global variable not a function, and so the probe failed on machines
where the linker makes a distinction (cf. Red Hat bug #444317).  Probe for
an actual function instead.

Fix broken configure test for libxslt: it was probing for xsltLibxmlVersion,
which is a global variable not a function, and so the probe failed on machines
where the linker makes a distinction (cf. Red Hat bug #444317).  Probe for
an actual function instead.

Allow float8, int8, and related datatypes to be passed by value on machines
where Datum is 8 bytes wide.  Since this will break old-style C functions
(those still using version 0 calling convention) that have arguments or
results of these types, provide a configure option to disable it and retain
the old pass-by-reference behavior.  Likewise, provide a configure option
to disable the recently-committed float4 pass-by-value change.

Zoltan Boszormenyi, plus configurability stuff by me.

Modify the float4 datatype to be pass-by-val.  Along the way, remove the last
uses of the long-deprecated float32 in contrib/seg; the definitions themselves
are still there, but no longer used.  fmgr/README updated to match.

I added a CREATE FUNCTION to account for existing seg_center() code in seg.c
too, and some tests for it and the neighbor functions.  At the same time,
remove checks for NULL which are not needed (because the functions are declared
STRICT).

I had to do some adjustments to contrib's btree_gist too.  The choices for
representation there are not ideal for changing the underlying types :-(

Original patch by Zoltan Boszormenyi, with some adjustments by me.

Enable 64-bit integer datetimes by default, per previous discussion.
This requires a working 64-bit integer type. If such a type cannot
be found, "--disable-integer-datetimes" can be used to switch
back to the previous floating point-based datetime implementation.

tag configure for 8.2.7 prior to tag

update configure for 8.3.1 prior to tag

Use -fwrapv in CFLAGS if we are using a version of gcc that accepts this flag.
This prevents compiler optimizations that assume overflow won't occur, which
breaks numerous overflow tests that we need to have working.  It is known
that gcc 4.3 causes problems and possible that 4.1 does.  Per my proposal
of some time ago and a recent report from Kris Jurka.

Backpatch as far as 8.0, which is as far as the patch conveniently goes.
7.x was pretty short of overflow tests anyway, so it may not matter there,
even assuming that anyone cares whether 7.x builds on recent gcc.

Use -fwrapv in CFLAGS if we are using a version of gcc that accepts this flag.
This prevents compiler optimizations that assume overflow won't occur, which
breaks numerous overflow tests that we need to have working.  It is known
that gcc 4.3 causes problems and possible that 4.1 does.  Per my proposal
of some time ago and a recent report from Kris Jurka.

Backpatch as far as 8.0, which is as far as the patch conveniently goes.
7.x was pretty short of overflow tests anyway, so it may not matter there,
even assuming that anyone cares whether 7.x builds on recent gcc.

Use -fwrapv in CFLAGS if we are using a version of gcc that accepts this flag.
This prevents compiler optimizations that assume overflow won't occur, which
breaks numerous overflow tests that we need to have working.  It is known
that gcc 4.3 causes problems and possible that 4.1 does.  Per my proposal
of some time ago and a recent report from Kris Jurka.

Backpatch as far as 8.0, which is as far as the patch conveniently goes.
7.x was pretty short of overflow tests anyway, so it may not matter there,
even assuming that anyone cares whether 7.x builds on recent gcc.

Use -fwrapv in CFLAGS if we are using a version of gcc that accepts this flag.
This prevents compiler optimizations that assume overflow won't occur, which
breaks numerous overflow tests that we need to have working.  It is known
that gcc 4.3 causes problems and possible that 4.1 does.  Per my proposal
of some time ago and a recent report from Kris Jurka.

Backpatch as far as 8.0, which is as far as the patch conveniently goes.
7.x was pretty short of overflow tests anyway, so it may not matter there,
even assuming that anyone cares whether 7.x builds on recent gcc.

Use -fwrapv in CFLAGS if we are using a version of gcc that accepts this flag.
This prevents compiler optimizations that assume overflow won't occur, which
breaks numerous overflow tests that we need to have working.  It is known
that gcc 4.3 causes problems and possible that 4.1 does.  Per my proposal
of some time ago and a recent report from Kris Jurka.

Backpatch as far as 8.0, which is as far as the patch conveniently goes.
7.x was pretty short of overflow tests anyway, so it may not matter there,
even assuming that anyone cares whether 7.x builds on recent gcc.

Provide a build-time option to store large relations as single files, rather
than dividing them into 1GB segments as has been our longtime practice.  This
requires working support for large files in the operating system; at least for
the time being, it won't be the default.

Zdenek Kotala

Use our own getopt() and getopt_long() on Solaris, because that platform's
versions don't handle long options the way we want.  Per Zdenek Kotala.

Use our own getopt() and getopt_long() on Solaris, because that platform's
versions don't handle long options the way we want.  Per Zdenek Kotala.

Use our own getopt() and getopt_long() on Solaris, because that platform's
versions don't handle long options the way we want.  Per Zdenek Kotala.

Use our own getopt() and getopt_long() on Solaris, because that platform's
versions don't handle long options the way we want.  Per Zdenek Kotala.

Use our own getopt() and getopt_long() on Solaris, because that platform's
versions don't handle long options the way we want.  Per Zdenek Kotala.

Use our own getopt() and getopt_long() on Solaris, because that platform's
versions don't handle long options the way we want.  Per Zdenek Kotala.

Backport fixed AC_FUNC_FSEEKO

Put back code modularization of fseeko() configure checks.

Put fseeko check back in old location, in hopes of silencing build warnings.

autoconf 2.61's AC_FUNC_FSEEKO reports success/failure differently, so
reorganize code for NetBSD/BSDi port/fseeko.c usage, and make code more
modular.

Upgrade to Autoconf 2.61:
- Change configure.in to use Autoconf 2.61 and update generated files.
- Update build system and documentation to support now directory variables
  offered by Autoconf 2.61.
- Replace usages of PGAC_CHECK_ALIGNOF by AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF, now available
  in Autoconf 2.61.
- Drop our patched version of AC_C_INLINE, as Autoconf now has the change.

Stamp HEAD as 8.4devel.

configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

Change /contrib to contrib for consistency.

must commit after autoconf ... and yes, I used the right autoconf

Stamp release 7.3.21.

Security: CVE-2007-4769, CVE-2007-4772, CVE-2007-6067, CVE-2007-6600, CVE-2007-6601

Stamp release 7.4.19.

Security: CVE-2007-4769, CVE-2007-4772, CVE-2007-6067, CVE-2007-6600, CVE-2007-6601

Stamp release 8.0.15.

Security: CVE-2007-4769, CVE-2007-4772, CVE-2007-6067, CVE-2007-6600, CVE-2007-6601

Stamp release 8.1.11.

Security: CVE-2007-4769, CVE-2007-4772, CVE-2007-6067, CVE-2007-6600, CVE-2007-6601

Stamp release 8.2.6.

Security: CVE-2007-4769, CVE-2007-4772, CVE-2007-6067, CVE-2007-6600, CVE-2007-6601

Stamp release 8.3RC1.

Security: CVE-2007-4769, CVE-2007-4772, CVE-2007-6067, CVE-2007-6600, CVE-2007-6601

Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.

Stamp 8.3beta4.

Back-patch mingw configure-check for gettimeofday so that 8.2 can
be built with current versions of mingw.

Re-do configure with autoconf 2.59

update files for beta3

I find that an out-of-the-box installation of OSSP uuid 1.6.0 installs
itself as libuuid, not libossp-uuid which was the only case expected by
our build support.  Install a configure test to determine which name
to use (and to check that the library is present at all).

Document that configure option only affects contrib:

 --with-ossp-uuid        use OSSP UUID library when building /contrib/uuid-ossp

Update wording for xsl configure option.

Document that configure --with-libxslt controls just /contrib/xml2.

Nikolay Samokhvalov

New versions of mingw have gettimeofday(), so add an autoconf test
for this.

Stamp 8.3beta2.

Make configure probe for the location of the <uuid.h> header file.
Needed to accommodate different layout on some platforms (Debian for
one).  Heikki Linnakangas

tag it 8.3beta1 ... the beta cycle begins

Cope with ERR_set_mark() and ERR_pop_to_mark() not existing in older
OpenSSL libraries --- just don't call them if they're not there.  This
might possibly lead to misleading error messages, but we'll just have
to live with that.

If we're gonna provide an --enable-profiling configure option, surely
it ought to know that you need -DLINUX_PROFILE on Linux.

tag configure for 7.3.20

update configure for 7.4.18

tag configure for 8.0.14

update configure for 8.1.10

update configure for 8.2.5 ...

Revert ill-starred change to ICC anti-aliasing switches.  Per
Jeremy Drake.

Give ICC its preferred, documented form of the no-strict-aliasing
switch, viz '-fno-alias'.  Since we have a separate code path here
anyway, it's just as easy to cooperate.

Add configure option --with-system-tzdata to use operating system time zone
database.

Fix search for SGML stylesheets to include the place where Gentoo keeps them.
Brendan Jurd

Fix search for SGML stylesheets to include the place where Gentoo keeps them.
Brendan Jurd

Adjust configure so that it sets CFLAGS properly for Intel's icc
even if the compiler is not defining __GNUC__.  Per report from
Dirk Tilger that it is possible for icc to not do that.

Adjust configure script to print the bison and flex versions in use.
Minor rearrangements to make a few tests in a more logical order.

Support for finding gssapi functions in the library "gss", as required
by Solaris 10 and possibly others.

Stefan Kaltenbrunner

Support GSSAPI builds where the header is <gssapi.h> and not <gssapi/gssapi.h>,
such as OpenBSD (possibly all Heimdal).

Stefan Kaltenbrunner

Fix freenig of names in Kerberos when using MIT - need to use the
free function provided in the Kerberos library.
This fixes a very hard to track down heap corruption on windows
when using debug runtimes.

Fix freenig of names in Kerberos when using MIT - need to use the
free function provided in the Kerberos library.
This fixes a very hard to track down heap corruption on windows
when using debug runtimes.

Fix misspelling.

Add support for GSSAPI authentication.

Documentation still being written, will be committed later.

Henry B. Hotz and Magnus Hagander

Fix computation of PG_VERSION_NUM by configure: remove unnecessary and
unportable backslashes in awk script (per Patrick Welche), and add
brackets to prevent autoconf from mangling sed's regexp (the sed call
here never did what was expected).

Fix computation of PG_VERSION_NUM by configure: remove unnecessary and
unportable backslashes in awk script (per Patrick Welche), and add
brackets to prevent autoconf from mangling sed's regexp (the sed call
here never did what was expected).

Tidy overly long configure help lines.

tas() support for Renesas' M32R processor.  Kazuhiro Inaoka

Fix alignment of help output.

Contrib module uuid-ossp for generating UUID values using the OSSP UUID
library.  New configure option --with-ossp-uuid to activate.

Update configure.in for release

Security: hold for release

Update configure in for new release

Security: hold for release

Update configure for release

Security: hold for release

Update configure.in for release

Security: hold for release

Update configure.in version number

Security: tag for release

Add --with-libxslt configure option

Enable building contrib/xml2 if configured using --with-libxml.
If this breaks things due to missing libxslt, then I'll have to
revert it, but let's see if it breaks the buildfarm.

Workarounds in case libxslt is missing include:
. don't configure with libxml, or
. don't build contrib modules from the contrib Makefile (use the individual module Makefiles instead), or
. change the xml2 Makefile

Now that core functionality is depending on autoconf's AC_C_BIGENDIAN to be
right, there seems precious little reason to have a pile of hand-maintained
endianness definitions in src/include/port/*.h.  Get rid of those, and make
the couple of places that used them depend on WORDS_BIGENDIAN instead.

Support varlena fields with single-byte headers and unaligned storage.

This commit breaks any code that assumes that the mere act of forming a tuple
(without writing it to disk) does not "toast" any fields.  While all available
regression tests pass, I'm not totally sure that we've fixed every nook and
cranny, especially in contrib.

Greg Stark with some help from Tom Lane

Make ECPG regression tests use native threading instead of pthreads, now that
 ecpglib supports it.
Change configure (patch from Bruce) and msvc build system to no longer require
 pthreads on win32, since all parts of postgresql can be thread-safe using the
 native platform functions.

Properly fix PORTNAME in configure.

User PORTNAME for win32 tests, rather than $template, for consistency.

Add -lcrypto as one of the possible link dependencies of libkrb5.
Per report from Jim Rosenberg.  This possibly should get back-patched,
but I'm a bit suspicious of it still because of the lack of prior reports.

Native shared memory implementation for win32.
Uses same underlying tech as before, but not the sysv emulation layer.

Add configure --enable-profiling to enable GCC profiling.  Patches from
Korry Douglas and Nikhil S

Fix wrong spacing (I think Bruce tried to hand-edit this instead of letting autoconf do it)

Stamp releases 8.2.3, 8.1.8, 8.0.12.  No release notes yet.

Stamp releases 8.2.3, 8.1.8, 8.0.12.  No release notes yet.

Stamp releases 8.2.3, 8.1.8, 8.0.12.  No release notes yet.

Add strlcat() from OpenBSD, to be used for replacing strncat and other
strange coding practices.

Fix configure detection code when --with-ldap and --enable-thread-safety
are both used.

Backpatch to 8.2.X.

Albe Laurenz

Fix configure detection code when --with-ldap and --enable-thread-safety
are both used.

Albe Laurenz

Stamp release 7.3.18.

Security: CVE-2007-0555, CVE-2007-0556

Stamp release 7.4.16.

Security: CVE-2007-0555, CVE-2007-0556

Stamp release 8.0.11.

Security: CVE-2007-0555, CVE-2007-0556

Stamp release 8.1.7.

Security: CVE-2007-0555, CVE-2007-0556

Stamp release 8.2.2.

Security: CVE-2007-0555, CVE-2007-0556

Use autoconf build-in sys_siglist macro AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST, rather than
create our own.

Use sys_siglist[] to print out signal names for signal exits, rather
than just numbers.

Optionally use xml2-config to detect installation locations of libxml.

Check and document minimum required version of libxml.

commit before tag ...

tag it

tag 8.1.6

tag configure

tag for 7.3.17 ...

Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright.  Back branches are typically not
back-stamped for this.

finite() no longer used; remove finite() platform-specific
infrastructure.

Initial SQL/XML support: xml data type and initial set of functions.

Make --with-ldap build on Unixware, per Olivier Prenant.

Make --with-ldap build on Unixware, per Olivier Prenant.

Stamp HEAD as 8.3devel.

v8.2.0 is now released ...

Better solution to the tr problem: use sed instead.  Per Martijn and Andrew.

Improve portability of 'tr' invocation in PGAC_ARG_CHECK.  Reported by
Olivier Prenant, fixed by Peter.

Ignore libedit/libreadline while probing for strlcpy and some other
standard functions.  Per report from Stefan Kaltenbrunner.

update for rc1

Tag as Beta3 ... two outstanding *known* bugs before RC1 ...

Revert to the pre-8.2 method of probing for libm, that is, always
include it if it links properly.  It seems too risky to assume that
standard functions like pow() are not special-cased by the compiler.
Per report from Andreas Lange that build fails on Solaris cc compiler
with -fast.  Even though we don't consider that a supported option,
I'm worried that similar issues will arise with other compilers.

Code the unknown options check without using m4 diversions.  Otherwise this
code relies on the checking macro actually being called at the end, or the
automatic undiversion will produce garbage.  These sort of implicit
side-effects undermine the modularity of the macros and happen to break the
ODBC driver which makes use of them.

Also put the warnings at the very end of configure, so there is an even
better chance of seeing them.

Stamp 8.2beta2.

Punt when trying to build with threaded Python on FreeBSD.

Also cut back on excessive use of *** to decorate configure error messages.
If it's an error message, you are sure to see it without any decoration.

Make unknown-option-warning code more portable.  echo -n is not portable,
and neither is "|" or "\|" in basic regular expressions.

Stamp 7.3.16.

Stamp 7.4.14.

Stamp 8.0.9.

Stamp 8.1.5.

On platforms that have getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK), use it to ensure that
max_stack_depth is not set to an unsafe value.

This commit also provides configure-time checking for <sys/resource.h>,
and cleans up some perhaps-unportable code associated with use of that
include file and getrlimit().

Second try at fixing libedit configuration for Bob Friesenhahn.
Buildfarm results from 'gazelle' show that there are indeed libedit
versions for which history.h is a needed header, even though it's
apparently been dropped entirely in other versions.  Grumble.

Adjust configure's handling of libedit to not look for a history.h file.
Per Bob Friesenhahn's report, this file is not supplied by some versions
of libedit, and even when it is supplied it seems to be just a link to
readline.h, so we don't need to include it anyway.
Also, ensure that we won't try to use a too-old version of Bison.
The previous coding would bleat but then use it anyway; better to invoke
the 'missing' script if any grammar files need to be rebuilt.

Switch over to using our own qsort() all the time, as has been proposed
repeatedly.  Now that we don't have to worry about memory leaks from
glibc's qsort, we can safely put CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS into the tuplesort
comparators, as was requested a couple months ago.  Also, get rid of
non-reentrancy and an extra level of function call in tuplesort.c by
providing a variant qsort_arg() API that passes an extra void * argument
through to the comparison routine.  (We might want to use that in other
places too, I didn't look yet.)

Properly handle the case where strlcpy() exists in libc but isn't
declared in the system headers.  Per report from Bruce than some BSDen
are like this.

Improve documentation of configure's readline/libedit switches.

Add strlcpy() to the set of functions supported by src/port/ when not
available directly on the platform.  Per discussion, this function is
sufficiently widely recognized to be treated as standard.

Tag us Beta1

Revise OpenLDAP configuration and linking to work on more platforms
than before.  Albe Laurenz (but editorialized heavily by me, so if it
doesn't work it's my fault).

Used autoconf 2.59 this time.

Replaced double-quote-fix with a hopefully better version.
Use initializer string length as size for character strings.
Added ecpg_config.h file that is created via configure.

Produce a clean failure in configure when dtrace is selected but cannot be
found.  Besides stopping those early who have no dtrace installed
whatsoever, this will also alert those who have dtrace in /usr/sbin, which
might not be in the path, which would produce confusing failures much later
in the build process.

Add documentation about pointing configure to find dtrace.

Back-port HEAD's configure fixes to select appropriate compiler switches
for Intel's icc and AIX's xlc.

Back-port HEAD's configure fixes to select appropriate compiler switches
for Intel's icc and AIX's xlc.

Fix inadequate quoting in test for AIX xlc.

Allow LDAP lookups from pg_service.conf.

Albe Laurenz

DTrace support, with a small initial set of probes

by Robert Lor

Remove no-longer-needed configure test for krb5_encrypt(), per Jim Gates.

Remove no-longer-needed configure test for krb5_encrypt(), per Jim Gates.

Don't try to call posix_fadvise() unless <fcntl.h> supplies a declaration
for it.  Hopefully will fix core dump evidenced by some buildfarm members
since fadvise patch went in.  The actual definition of the function is not
ABI-compatible with compiler's default assumption in the absence of any
declaration, so it's clearly unsafe to try to call it without seeing a
declaration.

Prepare code to be built by MSVC:

	o  remove many WIN32_CLIENT_ONLY defines
	o  add WIN32_ONLY_COMPILER define
	o  add 3rd argument to open() for portability
	o  add include/port/win32_msvc directory for
	   system includes

Magnus Hagander

Emit warnings for unknown configure options.

Martijn van Oosterhout

Avoid duplicate definition of LOCALEDIR in pg_config.h, already defined
in port/pg_config_paths.h.

Stamp release 7.3.15.

Stamp release 7.4.13.

Stamp release 8.0.8.

Stamp release 8.1.4.

Rearrange some configure.in comments for better readability.
Commit configure and pg_config.h.in, missed in last configure.in
update.

Intel compiler has a bug/misoptimization in checking for division by NAN
(NaN == 0), -mp1 fixes it, so add it to the CFLAGS.  Autoconf run.

Jeremy Drake

Turn off strict aliasing when using AIX xlc compiler.

autoconf run.

Add mentioun of Intel compiler bug:

Intel compiler has a bug in checking for division by NAN
# (NaN == 0), -mp1 fixes it, so someday we might way to add it.

Use special gcc -W flags only if we are using gcc, not if we are using
the Intel compiler.

Jeremy Drake

Remove use of lorder and tsort while building static libraries.  There's
no evidence that any currently-supported platform needs this, and good
reason to think that any platform that did need it couldn't use the static
libraries anyway --- libpq, at least, has circular references.  Removing
the code shuts up tsort warnings about the circular references on some
platforms.

Revert getaddrinfo configure changes until we get a solution that is
properly tested on Tru64 - pre recent discussion (or lack thereof) on -hackers.

Revert getaddrinfo configure changes until we get a solution that is
properly tested on Tru64 - pre recent discussion (or lack thereof) on -hackers.

This patch adds native LDAP auth, for those platforms that don't have
PAM (such as Win32, but also unixen without PAM). On Unix, uses
OpenLDAP. On win32, uses the builin WinLDAP library.

Magnus Hagander

Update copyright for 2006.  Update scripts.

Fix PG_VERSION_NUM for different awk -F handling.

Fix PG_VERSION_NUM awk -F parameter.

Add PG_VERSION_NUM for use by 3rd party applications wanting to test the
backend version in C using > and < comparisons.

Adjust probe for getaddrinfo to cope with macro-ized definitions, such
as Tru64's.  Per previous discussion.

Adjust probe for getaddrinfo to cope with macro-ized definitions, such
as Tru64's.  Per previous discussion.

Since we only use libld on AIX, don't include it in LIBS on any other
platforms (it does exist on HPUX, for one).  We could probably even make
this a test for specific AIX versions, but I don't know which ones need it.

Stamp 7.3.14.

Stamp 7.4.12.

Stamp 8.0.7.

Stamp 8.1.3.

Fix up remaining library checks.

Remove some checks for libraries that no one can identify.  We'll see how
that works out...

Move thread_test directory from /tools to /test so source-only tarballs
have the directory for the configure test.

First attempt at removing some AC_CHECK_LIB(foo, main) calls.

Allow MEMSET_LOOP_LIMIT to be set on a per-platform basis, and turn off
MemSet on AIX by setting MEMSET_LOOP_LIMIT to zero.

Add optimization to skip MemSet tests in MEMSET_LOOP_LIMIT == 0 case and
just call memset() directly.

Fix fsync code to test whether F_FULLFSYNC is available, instead of
assuming it always is on Darwin.  Per report from Neil Brandt.

Fix fsync code to test whether F_FULLFSYNC is available, instead of
assuming it always is on Darwin.  Per report from Neil Brandt.

Use a more bulletproof test for whether finite() and isinf() are present.
It seems that recent gcc versions can optimize away calls to these functions
even when the functions do not exist on the platform, resulting in a bogus
positive result.  Avoid this by using a non-constant argument and ensuring
that the function result is not simply discarded.  Per report from
Fran�ois Laupretre.

Use a more bulletproof test for whether finite() and isinf() are present.
It seems that recent gcc versions can optimize away calls to these functions
even when the functions do not exist on the platform, resulting in a bogus
positive result.  Avoid this by using a non-constant argument and ensuring
that the function result is not simply discarded.  Per report from
Fran�ois Laupretre.

Use a more bulletproof test for whether finite() and isinf() are present.
It seems that recent gcc versions can optimize away calls to these functions
even when the functions do not exist on the platform, resulting in a bogus
positive result.  Avoid this by using a non-constant argument and ensuring
that the function result is not simply discarded.  Per report from
Fran�ois Laupretre.

Use a more bulletproof test for whether finite() and isinf() are present.
It seems that recent gcc versions can optimize away calls to these functions
even when the functions do not exist on the platform, resulting in a bogus
positive result.  Avoid this by using a non-constant argument and ensuring
that the function result is not simply discarded.  Per report from
Fran�ois Laupretre.

Use a more bulletproof test for whether finite() and isinf() are present.
It seems that recent gcc versions can optimize away calls to these functions
even when the functions do not exist on the platform, resulting in a bogus
positive result.  Avoid this by using a non-constant argument and ensuring
that the function result is not simply discarded.  Per report from
Fran�ois Laupretre.

Generate back-branch configure scripts with the appropriate version of autoconf.

Generate back-branch configure scripts with the appropriate version of autoconf.

Generate back-branch configure scripts with the appropriate version of autoconf.

Stamp release 8.1.2.

Stamp relesae 8.0.6.

Stamp release 7.4.11.

Stamp release 7.3.13.

Remove BEOS port.

Remove QNX port.

Add port support for unsetenv() in back branches.  Needed for locale
environment fix.

Add port support for unsetenv() in back branches.  Needed for locale
environment fix.

Add URL for Solaris qsort() bug.

Update doc mention that Solaris qsort() might be fixed.

Stamp 7.3.12.

Stamp 7.4.10.

Stamp 8.0.5.

Stamp 8.1.1.

Put [] around default value for port number.