to C at run-time, and providing alternative output files for different
sort orders.

streets than it used to...

which is broken in some weird way that I don't understand.  I think it
may be exposing a bug in the new psql --- for one thing, I get different
results when I run psql by hand than the regress script gets.  What
the heck???

Not all cleaned up yet.

Modified a few tests to match results on RedHat Linux/gcc for v6.1beta.

OK, here are a passel of patches for the geometric data types.
These add a "circle" data type, new operators and functions
for the existing data types, and change the default formats
for some of the existing types to make them consistant with
each other. Current formatting conventions (e.g. compatible
with v6.0 to allow dump/reload) are supported, but the new
conventions should be an improvement and we can eventually
drop the old conventions entirely.

For example, there are two kinds of paths (connected line segments),
open and closed, and the old format was

'(1,2,1,2,3,4)' for a closed path with two points (1,2) and (3,4)
'(0,2,1,2,3,4)' for an open path with two points (1,2) and (3,4)

Pretty arcane, huh? The new format for paths is

'((1,2),(3,4))' for a closed path with two points (1,2) and (3,4)
'[(1,2),(3,4)]' for an open path with two points (1,2) and (3,4)

For polygons, the old convention is

'(0,4,2,0,4,3)' for a triangle with points at (0,0),(4,4), and (2,3)

and the new convention is

'((0,0),(4,4),(2,3))' for a triangle with points at (0,0),(4,4), and (2,3)

Other data types which are also represented as lists of points
(e.g. boxes, line segments, and polygons) have similar representations
(they surround each point with parens).

For v6.1, any format which can be interpreted as the old style format
is decoded as such; we can remove that backwards compatibility but ugly
convention for v7.0. This will allow dump/reloads from v6.0.

These include some updates to the regression test files to change the test
for creating a data type from "circle" to "widget" to keep the test from
trashing the new builtin circle type.

Its starting to actually take shape and look as expected...

user-friendly (and more useful)

'master' file

Commit mods to regress.sh so that split out tests are run...look forward
to finding out how to do a proper redirect to continue visual cleanup :)

sure exactly what it is it fixes...

psql now returns error from queries and errors files, so ignore return code.

Also, I think that an extra source of noise in the diff of regress.out and
expected.out is caused by not substituting the shared library file
extension in the regression.input file (much like the paths and the
usernames are sub'ed). This seems to be fixed with the following patches
to regression.input and the Makefile... If I'm off base here, please tell!

Submitted by:  Wayde Nie <niew@phoenix.cis.mcmaster.ca>

Submitted by: Dr. Geoge

submitted by: Dr_George_D_Detlefsen <drgeorge@ilt.com>

submitted by: dr. george