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).

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

Nikolay Samokhvalov

for this.

Needed to accommodate different layout on some platforms (Debian for
one).  Heikki Linnakangas

tag it 8.3beta1 ... the beta cycle begins

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.

it ought to know that you need -DLINUX_PROFILE on Linux.

Jeremy Drake.

switch, viz '-fno-alias'.  Since we have a separate code path here
anyway, it's just as easy to cooperate.

database.

even if the compiler is not defining __GNUC__.  Per report from
Dirk Tilger that it is possible for icc to not do that.

Minor rearrangements to make a few tests in a more logical order.

by Solaris 10 and possibly others.

Stefan Kaltenbrunner

such as OpenBSD (possibly all Heimdal).

Stefan Kaltenbrunner

free function provided in the Kerberos library.
This fixes a very hard to track down heap corruption on windows
when using debug runtimes.

Documentation still being written, will be committed later.

Henry B. Hotz and Magnus Hagander

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).

library.  New configure option --with-ossp-uuid to activate.

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

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.

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

 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.

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.

Uses same underlying tech as before, but not the sysv emulation layer.

Korry Douglas and Nikhil S

strange coding practices.

are both used.

Albe Laurenz

create our own.

than just numbers.