been applied. The patches are in the .tar.gz attachment at the end:

varchar-array.patch     this patch adds support for arrays of bpchar() and
                        varchar(), which where always missing from postgres.

                        These datatypes can be used to replace the _char4,
                        _char8, etc., which were dropped some time ago.

block-size.patch        this patch fixes many errors in the parser and other
                        program which happen with very large query statements
                        (> 8K) when using a page size larger than 8192.

                        This patch is needed if you want to submit queries
                        larger than 8K. Postgres supports tuples up to 32K
                        but you can't insert them because you can't submit
                        queries larger than 8K. My patch fixes this problem.

                        The patch also replaces all the occurrences of `8192'
                        and `1<<13' in the sources with the proper constants
                        defined in include files. You should now never find
                        8192 hardwired in C code, just to make code clearer.


--
Massimo Dal Zotto

no longer returns buffer pointer, can be gotten from scan;
	descriptor; bootstrap can create multi-key indexes;
pg_procname index now is multi-key index; oidint2, oidint4, oidname
are gone (must be removed from regression tests); use System Cache
rather than sequential scan in many places; heap_modifytuple no
longer takes buffer parameter; remove unused buffer parameter in
a few other functions; oid8 is not index-able; remove some use of
single-character variable names; cleanup Buffer variables usage
and scan descriptor looping; cleaned up allocation and freeing of
tuples; 18k lines of diff;

yyerror ones from bison. It also includes a few 'enhancements' to
the C programming style (which are, of course, personal).

The other patch removes the compilation of backend/lib/qsort.c, as
qsort() is a standard function in stdlib.h and can be used any
where else (and it is). It was only used in
backend/optimizer/geqo/geqo_pool.c, backend/optimizer/path/predmig.c,
and backend/storage/page/bufpage.c

> > Some or all of these changes might not be appropriate for v6.3,
since we > > are in beta testing and since they do not affect the
current functionality.  > > For those cases, how about submitting
patches based on the final v6.3 > > release?

There's more to come. Please review these patches. I ran the
regression tests and they only failed where this was expected
(random, geo, etc).

Cheers,

Jeroen

> > characters in them.  Dumping and reloading using pg_dumpall >
> doesn't work with this and dumping the entire array and > > then
trying to parse it is hopeless.

Doug Gibson

The file 'backend/utils/adt/arrayfuncs.c' won't compile with the
February 14th snapshot, because of an inconsistency between the
declaration and implementation of ReadArrayStr().  As far as I can
tell, the predeclaration is wrong.  I assume this is what was meant:

Patch by: wieck@sapserv.debis.de (Jan Wieck)

   One  of  the design rules of PostgreSQL is extensibility. And
   to follow this rule means (at least for me) that there should
   not  only  be a builtin PL.  Instead I would prefer a defined
   interface for PL implemetations.

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

of the array constants and in one of the loadable modules I posted some time
ago.

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

Goals: reduce the difficulty of porting from platform to platform,
       release to release, but moving as much as possible into config.h

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

The updating of array fields is broken in Postgres95-1.01, An array can
be only replaced with a new array but not have some elements modified.
This is caused by two bugs in the parser and in the array utilities.
Furthermore it is not possible to update array with a base type of
variable length.


- submitted by: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>