Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> * Fix uselessly executable files in the source tree. See my recent post.
> Any ideas on that?
They've been uselessly executable since they were put there. I don't
think this is something that we need to fix in time for 7.4, or even
should risk trying to fix during RC stage.
> * There is a bug in configure that prints an ugly error message on systems
> without nsgmls and certain weird shells (NetBSD, UnixWare, for example),
> because they interpret the construct ${NSGMLS-false} differently.
Okay, should fix that, unless it's harder to fix than it sounds.
> * Did we really decide not to rename the check_function_bodies parameter
> to something more general? Maybe I've missed it.
There didn't seem to be either widespread interest in this, or good
consensus on what to change it to. I proposed doing nothing here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-10/msg01521.php
and so far as I saw no one responded one way or the other.
> * PPC spinlock patch from SuSE.
See my prior response.
regards, tom lane
