"HAS_LONG_LONG" is defined based on the assumption that
strtol() would return ERANGE if a platform does not support
64-bit integers. In current PostgreSQL 6.5 (and 6.4.2)
distribution, "HAS_LONG_LONG" is defined only if platform
is "alpha". (See include/port/alpha.h) I think the int4
range check should apply to linux_alpha as well. (I have
not tested yet but I guess this might be applicable to
newer Linux/i386 distributions which includes new GCC which
implements long int as 64-bit int.)

implementations of strtol() treat empty strings ("") as invalid arguments
while others convert this (erroneously, IHMO) to zero (0).  Assuming that the
expected behaviour of pg_atoi() is to return 0 if it is passed an empty
string, I am supplying the following patch to explictly check for an empty
string in pg_atoi() and return 0 if the string is empty.  The patch will also
trap a NULL character pointer being passed to pg_atoi() and will use elog() to
print out an error message if the input char pointer is NULL.


Billy G. Allie

Makefile.global.

End result, if all goes well, should allow for much easier porting, since
there will no longer be a concept of a "port".  Most, if not everything,
*should* be determined by configure, or by the compiler itself.  Still
work to be done though :)

 hardcoded values.

Another PGINDENT run that changes variable indenting and case label indenting.  Also static variable indenting.

Fix pgproc names over 15 chars in output.  Add strNcpy() function.  remove some (void) casts that are unnecessary.

type check in numutils.c:ftoa()

Pointed out by: "Martin J. Laubach" <mjl@emsi.priv.at>

Change BSD44_derived to __FreeBSD__ in numutils.c (need to know what
NetBSD is referred to as...someone?)

gmake of the code without interruption.

There's also some tidy-up of the MAXPATHLEN stuff based on the assumption that
all supported platforms have MAXPATHLEN defined in <sys/param.h>.

(The only unknowns for the above are AIX and IRIX5.)

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

submitted by: Bruce Momjian (root@candle.pha.pa.us)