can be generated in a buffer and then sent to the frontend in a single
libpq call.  This solves problems with NOTICE and ERROR messages generated
in the middle of a data message or COPY OUT operation.

instead of doing a kill(self, SIGQUIT) and expecting the signal handler
to do it.  Also, clean up inconsistent definitions of the sigjmp buffer
in the several files that already referenced it.

MyProcPid global variable is set to 0 when postgres starts as a command
(not as a backend daemon). This leads issuing SIGQUIT to the process group,
not the process itself. As a result, parent sh gets core dumped in the
Wisconsin benchmark test.

buffering lost by not going through stdio anymore for client I/O.

From: Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>

Here is a first patch to cleanup the backend side of libpq.
This patch removes all external dependencies on the "Pfin" and "Pfout" that
are declared in pqcomm.h. These variables are also changed to "static" to
make sure.
Almost all the change is in the handler of the "copy" command - most other
areas of the backend already used the correct functions.
This change will make the way for cleanup of the internal stuff there - now
that all the functions accessing the file descriptors are confined to a
single directory.

   with some extra ugly sprintfs fixed. More work in this area is
   needed still.

Göran Thyni

From: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>

> tprintf.patch
>
>       tprintf.patch
>
>       adds functions and macros which implement a conditional trace package
>       with the ability to change flags and numeric options of running
>       backends at runtime.
>       Options/flags can be specified in the command line and/or read from
>       the file pg_options in the data directory.

shmem_exit to replace exitpg().

to bool's.

The attached patch makes elog() write the message to stderr if there is
no frontend to talk to.

Another PGINDENT run that changes variable indenting and case label indenting.  Also static variable indenting.

Various compile errors concerning overflow due to shifts, unsigned, and bad prototypes, from Solaris, from Diab Jerius

According to man page under FreeBSD for sys_errlist[], strerror() should be
used instead...not sure if this will break other systems, so only changing
two files for now, and we'll see what "errors" it turns up

Subject: [HACKERS] linux/alpha patches

These patches lay the groundwork for a Linux/Alpha port.  The port doesn't
actually work unless you tweak the linker to put all the pointers in the
first 32 bits of the address space, but it's at least a start.  It
implements the test-and-set instruction in Alpha assembly, and also fixes
a lot of pointer-to-integer conversions, which is probably good anyway.

In particular, no more compiled-in default for PGDATA or LIBDIR.  Commands
that need them need either invocation options or environment variables.
PGPORT default is hardcoded as 5432, but overrideable with options or
environment variables.

and found out that one of the patches is a show stopper for
compiling under a strict ansi package.

Please make sure the following fix makes it into the 1.02.1
release...

Thanks.

-Kurt

        - src/backend/access
                - no changes
        - src/backend/utils
                - mostly cosmetic changes
                - ESCAPE_PATCH Added
        - src/Makefile.global changes merged

This is a patch to prevent an endless loop occuring in the Postgres backend
when a 'warning' error condition generates another warning error contition
in the handler code.

Submitted by: Chris Dunlop, <chris@onthe.net.au>