Providing this information as plain text was doubtless worth the trouble
ten years ago, but it seems likely that hardly anyone reads it in this
format anymore.  And the effort required to maintain these files (in the
form of extra-complex markup rules in the relevant parts of the SGML
documentation) is significant.  So, let's stop doing that and rely solely
on the other documentation formats.

Per discussion, the plain-text INSTALL instructions might still be worth
their keep, so we continue to generate that file.

Rather than remove HISTORY and src/test/regress/README from distribution
tarballs entirely, replace them with simple stub files that tell the reader
where to find the relevant documentation.  This is mainly to avoid possibly
breaking packaging recipes that expect these files to exist.

Back-patch to all supported branches, because simplifying the markup
requirements for release notes won't help much unless we do it in all
branches.

at end of files.

file:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

Brendan Jurd

Joshua D. Drake

semi-related SGML cleanup. Original patch from ljb220@mindspring.com,
additional cleanup by Neil Conway.

Remove all traces of the ODBC driver, which is now on GBorg as the psqlodbc
project ...

time to do it, not during beta because people are using this stuff in
production sometimes.

check one last time for any erros ...

Change the README file to show the upcoming 6.5 release...

pg_password utility.  Cleanup for psql passwords.  New datetime contrib stuff for new version.  Fix for strutils needing config.h.

manual intervention required :)

Subject: [PATCHES] Documentation update

This patch updates some of the documentation that comes with the
distribution.  The following files are updated:
        COPYRIGHT
        README
        doc/README.flex
        doc/README.support
        doc/bug.template

Pointed out by Andrew Martin