sequence contrib directory removed, as already integrated into the main
backend...

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

Here is a tar file the new directories, which substitute the old ones
in contrib. Please remove the old directories array, datetime, miscutil,
string and userlock before unpacking the tar file in contrib.

Note that as the modules are now installed in lib/modules I install all
my sql code in lib/sql. In my opinion also the other contributors should
follow these rules.

    test isn't that complete up to now,  but  I  think  it  shows
    enough of the capabilities of the module.

    The  Makefile  assumes  it  is  located  in a directory under
    pgsql/src/pl.   Since   it   includes   Makefile.global   and
    Makefile.port  and doesn't use any own compiler/linker calls,
    it should build on most of our supported  platforms  (I  only
    tested  under Linux up to now).  It requires flex and bison I
    think. Maybe we should ship prepared gram.c etc. like for the
    main parser too?


Jan

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

Here is some more contrib-fodder, based on TIH's IP address type,
for ISBN and ISSN identifiers (which I just happened to need to keep
track of the things in my library).

inclusion in pgsql. I have included a README which should be enough
to start using it, plus a BENCH file that describes some timings
I have done.

Please have a look at it, and if you think everything is OK, I
would like it seen included in the contrib-section of pgsql.

I don't think I will do any more work in this, but maybe it inspires
somebody else to improve on it.

Maarten Boekhold

real small function to revoke update on a column. The function >
> doesn't do anything > > fancy like checking user ids.  > > > >
I copied most of it from the refint.c in the contrib directory.
> > > > Should I post this somewhere? It really isn't very big.
> >

Here it is...

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Contents:

contrib/lo/Makefile contrib/lo/README contrib/lo/lo.c contrib/lo/lo.sql.in

These are just test stuff - not essential

contrib/lo/test.sql contrib/lo/drop.sql

Peter Mount

our internal IP routing data base, and because  I have participated
in Ingres development here in Russia in RUBIN/DEMOS project -
through it was not freeware work - and it was very interesting for
me too see such good freeware data base as PostgreSQL), and I
modified 'ipaddr' data type library in accordance to our requests
and to allow SQL do indexing over ipaddr objects.

You can read description at 'http://relcom.EU.net/ipaddr.html' and
get sources at 'http://relcom.EU.net/ip_class.tar.gz'. It contains
sources, sql scripts for incorporating new data type into postgres
(including ipaddr_ops operator class incorporation) and 20,000
records based data test for the indexing.

I am not sure if it's proper mail list for this information, and
if it's interesting for anyone except me to get full-functional
ipaddress class. I am ready to make all modifications, bug fixing
and documentation for this data class if it's nessesary for it's
contribution to the Postgres data base.

Anyway, all my work was based at original 'ip&mac data type'
contribution, written by Tom Ivar Helbekkmo.

Be free to write me any questions or requests about this work.
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From: "Aldrin L." <aldrin@americasnet.com>

Subject: [INTERFACES] mSQL Compatibility Library (fwd)

  I do not know about these contributions well as I only made the binaries
to contribute to a Japanese Linux package.(I did not test them.)  But I
try to make some brief introduction about the contrib directory with my
poor English.  Here is a draft of README about contrib directory:

  This patch fix the Makefiles in contrib/{pginterface, spi,
miscutil, int8, ip_and_mac, sequence, soundex, string, userlock,
array, datetime} to install their modules in one directory(lib/modules/).

From: Terry Mackintosh <terry@terrym.com>

Missing = in an update

implementation that's in contrib/ip_and_mac/.  This one works right
with 6.3, avoids the problems I ran into earlier with LIKE, and
includes a bit of extra functionality.

From: Tom I Helbekkmo <tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO>

 to integer unix system time conflict on the input types.
 Leave in the conversions from integer unix system time to datetime.

PostgreSQL type extensions for IP and MAC addresses.

I needed to record IP and MAC level ethernet addresses in a data
base, and I really didn't want to store them as plain strings, with
no enforced error checking, so I put together the accompanying code
as my first experiment with adding a data type to PostgreSQL.  I
then thought that this might be useful to others, both directly and
as a very simple example of how to do this sort of thing, so here
it is, in the hope that it will be useful.

This patch makes it possible to do a "real" make distclean (back to its
fresh state) on the distribution after compilation, regression testing,
etc.

Allow varchar() to only store needed bytes.  Remove PALLOC,PALLOCTYPE,PFREE.  Clean up use of VARDATA.

Change some labels in bootparse to make ctags happy.  Clean up outfunc/readfunc code and add missing fields for Query structure and new Union fields.  Fix optimizer bug shown in new \do command.  Change WARN to ERROR in contrib and regression stuff.

Put all configurable parameters near top of file.
Remove explicit path to postmaster executable.
More comments.

 of integer Unix system times.