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

a field was labelled as a primary key, the system automatically
created a unique index on the field.  This patch extends it so
that the index has the indisprimary field set.  You can pull a list
of primary keys with the followiing select.

SELECT pg_class.relname, pg_attribute.attname
    FROM pg_class, pg_attribute, pg_index
    WHERE pg_class.oid = pg_attribute.attrelid AND
        pg_class.oid = pg_index.indrelid AND
        pg_index.indkey[0] = pg_attribute.attnum AND
        pg_index.indisunique = 't';

There is nothing in this patch that modifies the template database to
set the indisprimary attribute for system tables.  Should they be
changed or should we only be concerned with user tables?

D'Arcy

Move declarations to allow sharing between modules.

INTERSECT and EXCEPT is available for postgresql-v6.4!

The patch against v6.4 is included at the end of the current text
(in uuencoded form!)

I also included the text of my Master's Thesis. (a postscript
version). I hope that you find something of it useful and would be
happy if parts of it find their way into the PostgreSQL documentation
project (If so, tell me, then I send the sources of the document!)

The contents of the document are:
  -) The first chapter might be of less interest as it gives only an
     overview on SQL.

  -) The second chapter gives a description on much of PostgreSQL's
     features (like user defined types etc. and how to use these features)

  -) The third chapter starts with an overview of PostgreSQL's internal
     structure with focus on the stages a query has to pass (i.e. parser,
     planner/optimizer, executor). Then a detailed description of the
     implementation of the Having clause and the Intersect/Except logic is
     given.

Originally I worked on v6.3.2 but never found time enough to prepare
and post a patch. Now I applied the changes to v6.4 to get Intersect
and Except working with the new version. Chapter 3 of my documentation
deals with the changes against v6.3.2, so keep that in mind when
comparing the parts of the code printed there with the patched sources
of v6.4.

Here are some remarks on the patch. There are some things that have
still to be done but at the moment I don't have time to do them
myself. (I'm doing my military service at the moment) Sorry for that
:-(

-) I used a rewrite technique for the implementation of the Except/Intersect
   logic which rewrites the query to a semantically equivalent query before
   it is handed to the rewrite system (for views, rules etc.), planner,
   executor etc.

-) In v6.3.2 the types of the attributes of two select statements
   connected by the UNION keyword had to match 100%. In v6.4 the types
   only need to be familiar (i.e. int and float can be mixed). Since this
   feature did not exist when I worked on Intersect/Except it
   does not work correctly for Except/Intersect queries WHEN USED IN
   COMBINATION WITH UNIONS! (i.e. sometimes the wrong type is used for the
   resulting table. This is because until now the types of the attributes of
   the first select statement have been used for the resulting table.
   When Intersects and/or Excepts are used in combination with Unions it
   might happen, that the first select statement of the original query
   appears at another position in the query which will be executed. The reason
   for this is the technique used for the implementation of
   Except/Intersect which does a query rewrite!)
   NOTE: It is NOT broken for pure UNION queries and pure INTERSECT/EXCEPT
         queries!!!

-) I had to add the field intersect_clause to some data structures
   but did not find time to implement printfuncs for the new field.
   This does NOT break the debug modes but when an Except/Intersect
   is used the query debug output will be the already rewritten query.

-) Massive changes to the grammar rules for SELECT and INSERT statements
   have been necessary (see comments in gram.y and documentation for
   deatails) in order to be able to use mixed queries like
   (SELECT ... UNION (SELECT ... EXCEPT SELECT)) INTERSECT SELECT...;

-) When using UNION/EXCEPT/INTERSECT you will get:
   NOTICE: equal: "Don't know if nodes of type xxx are equal".
   I did not have  time to add comparsion support for all the needed nodes,
   but the default behaviour of the function equal met my requirements.
   I did not dare to supress this message!

   That's the reason why the regression test for union will fail: These
   messages are also included in the union.out file!

-) Somebody of you changed the union_planner() function for v6.4
   (I copied the targetlist to new_tlist and that was removed and
   replaced by a cleanup of the original targetlist). These chnages
   violated some having queries executed against views so I changed
   it back again. I did not have time to examine the differences between the
   two versions but now it works :-)
   If you want to find out, try the file queries/view_having.sql on
   both versions and compare the results . Two queries won't produce a
   correct result with your version.

regards

    Stefan

per Massimo Dal Zotto.

separately from snprintf() --- HPUX, for one, has snprintf but not
vsnprintf.  Fix a minor typo in snprintf.c, too.

to ensure that config.h is included as well.

out-of-sync routine prototypes ... the system doesn't compile without this ...

From: Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>

Here's another patch for the libpq backend areas. This patch removes all
usage of "FILE *" on the communications channel. It also cleans up the
comments and headers in the pqcomm.c file - a lot of things were either
missing or incorrect. Finally, it removes a couple of unused functions
(leftovers from the time of shared code between the libpq backend and
frontend).

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.

Anything else is CPU overkill.

Jan

exponents.

Jan

and aggregates.

Jan

Nakajima. Since he is not subscribing the mailing list, I'm posting
his patches by his request.  According to him, he has successfully
compiled and passed the regression test on Mac SE/30 running
NetBSD/m68k. Also, another person has reported that with the patches
PostgreSQL is working on NetBSD/sun3 too.
--
Tatsuo Ishii

Jan

MIPS cpu (I think it's R4000). I have tested the patches on LinuxPPC
and FreeBSD. I believe they do not harm other platforms.
--
Tatsuo Ishii

More cleanups to appendStringInfo() usage in node/outfuncs.c.

Jan

LOCK TABLE IN ... MODE
...implemented

New code for locking buffer' context.

more cleanups...of note, appendStringInfo now performs like sprintf(),
where you state a format and arguments.  the old behavior required
each appendStringInfo to have to have a sprintf() before it if any
formatting was required.

Also shortened several instances where there were multiple appendStringInfo()
calls in a row, doing nothing more then adding one more word to the String,
instead of doing them all in one call.

Initial attempt to clean up the code...

Switch sprintf() to snprintf()
Remove any/all #if 0 -or- #ifdef NOT_USED -or- #ifdef FALSE sections of
	code

Fix one usage of substr() which mapped to the "Oracle compatibility" funcs
 rather than the more recent (and closer to SQL92) function in varlena.c.
Add more DESC() entries for conversion functions.

instead of our own halfway-there code.  Add AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE call
to check whether tm_zone exists in struct tm.  Revise reading of template
file so that templates can define any variables they feel like (and,
indeed, can execute arbitrary shell code) rather than being constrained
to a fixed set of variable names.

Extend new type coersion techniques to aggregates.

SunOS has tas(), but not memmove or strerror, and its sprintf() doesn't
return int.  Also, older versions of GNU Make don't like rules with
empty left-hand sides...

instead of relying on port's os.h to tell us.  (Needed for HPUX
where system major version is not enough info.)
configure unsets USE_TK if X libraries not found.
doc/Makefile uses gzcat or zcat as found by autoconf.