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.

back-stamped for this.

infrastructure.

v8.2.0 is now released ...

standard functions.  Per report from Stefan Kaltenbrunner.

update for rc1

Tag as Beta3 ... two outstanding *known* bugs before RC1 ...

include it if it links properly.  It seems too risky to assume that
standard functions like pow() are not special-cased by the compiler.
Per report from Andreas Lange that build fails on Solaris cc compiler
with -fast.  Even though we don't consider that a supported option,
I'm worried that similar issues will arise with other compilers.

code relies on the checking macro actually being called at the end, or the
automatic undiversion will produce garbage.  These sort of implicit
side-effects undermine the modularity of the macros and happen to break the
ODBC driver which makes use of them.

Also put the warnings at the very end of configure, so there is an even
better chance of seeing them.

Also cut back on excessive use of *** to decorate configure error messages.
If it's an error message, you are sure to see it without any decoration.

max_stack_depth is not set to an unsafe value.

This commit also provides configure-time checking for <sys/resource.h>,
and cleans up some perhaps-unportable code associated with use of that
include file and getrlimit().

Buildfarm results from 'gazelle' show that there are indeed libedit
versions for which history.h is a needed header, even though it's
apparently been dropped entirely in other versions.  Grumble.

Per Bob Friesenhahn's report, this file is not supplied by some versions
of libedit, and even when it is supplied it seems to be just a link to
readline.h, so we don't need to include it anyway.
Also, ensure that we won't try to use a too-old version of Bison.
The previous coding would bleat but then use it anyway; better to invoke
the 'missing' script if any grammar files need to be rebuilt.

repeatedly.  Now that we don't have to worry about memory leaks from
glibc's qsort, we can safely put CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS into the tuplesort
comparators, as was requested a couple months ago.  Also, get rid of
non-reentrancy and an extra level of function call in tuplesort.c by
providing a variant qsort_arg() API that passes an extra void * argument
through to the comparison routine.  (We might want to use that in other
places too, I didn't look yet.)