Announcing PostgreSQL 6.5.3-3 and 6.5.3-3nl RPMs. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Announcing PostgreSQL 6.5.3-3 and 6.5.3-3nl RPMs.

These RPMs are once again primarily bug fix RPMs, with the following additions:

* The header files necessary to build SPI applications are now included in the
/usr/include/pgsql tree in the appropriate places. To build an SPI program,
#include "spi.h" and use -I/usr/include/pgsql.

* The libpq++.H header (note the capital H...) was left out of previous
packages.

* The locale enabled RPMs now also have MultiByte enabled, and set to a default
of SQL_ASCII.

* The locale enabled RPMS include /usr/bin/pg_encoding, to set the MultiByte
encoding.

RPMs available for immediate download from
http://www.ramifordistat.net/postgres -- for bulk download, use 'wget -m
http://www.ramifordistat.net/postgres'.

Changelog from 6.5-1 to 6.5.3-3:
* Thu Dec 23 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
- 6.5.3-3 and 6.5.3-3nl RPMs.
- --with-mb=SQL_ASCII enabled.

* Wed Dec 22 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
- SPI headers in -devel
- Fixed libpq++.H funniness -- fully corrected in CURRENT

* Fri Nov 26 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
- Corrected security problem of /var/lib/pgsql being mode 755.
- /usr/lib/pgsql/backup permissions also a potential hole, though not
-- as serious as the /var/lib/pgsql hole
- Removed PostgreSQL-HOWTO until further notice.  This HOWTO is worse
-- than having no documentation at all in its present form.  When it is
-- corrected for accuracy and conciseness, it will be reinstated.
- Documentation updates in README.rpm
- Corrected some misinformation in /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql

* Fri Nov 05 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
- Add ARMV41 support, thanks to Mark Knox <segfault@hardline.org>
- Add patches for ARMV41
-- adds a 'linux_arm' template - Removed Excludearch for armv41

* Thu Nov 04 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
- Release 6.5.3-1
- ODBC odbcinst.ini in /usr/lib/pgsql (postgresql-odbc)
- ALPHA patchset unmodified from 6.5.2
-- tested by Ryan Kirkpatrick
- Documentation changes and additions in README.rpm

* Mon Nov 01 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
- Initial pre-6.5.3 build
-- 6.5.3-0.1
-- built from REL6_5_PATCHES CVS checkout
- pgaccess no longer a separate source file
-- 6.5.3 has pgaccess 0.98 fully
-- integrated
- fixed up patches
-- pgaccess patch, gram.y patch, and src/interfaces/Makefile
-- perl5 -> perl patch mainlined.

* Sat Sep 25 1999 Dale Lovelace <dale@redhat.com>
- Fix init script
- fix README.rpm

* Sat Sep 25 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
- Red Hat 6.1 release candidate.

* Fri Sep 24 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
- apply arithmetic operator patch to gram.y.

* Wed Sep 22 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
- merge postgresql-6.5.2-0.2lo changes.
- Note: the postgresql description refers to postgresql-data but that can't be
changed until after 6.1 ships.

* Tue Sep 21 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
- merge postgresql-6.5.1-0.7lo changes. Thanks Lamar!
- use uid = 40 for user postgres (will affect new installs only).
- postgresql-server needs prereq on /usr/sbin/useradd.

* Mon Sep 20 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
- 6.5.2-0.2lo
- Upgrade to 6.5.2
- Add some versioning to the init script
-- source is postgresql.init.VERSION
- Added some intelligence to init script
- Cleaned up the migration script packaging
-- now in a tarball
- Consolidated some patches
- Added the JDK 1.2 JDBC jar to the existing JDK1.1 jar.

* Sat Sep 18 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
- 0.7lo - First stab at integrating modified versions of the Debian migration scripts.
-- Courtesy Oliver Elphick, Debian package maintainer, PostgreSQL Global
-- Development Group.
- /usr/lib/pgsql/backup/pg_dumpall_new
-- a modifed pg_dumpall used in the
-- migration
-- modified to work with the older executables.
- /usr/bin/postgresql_dump
-- the migration script.
- Upgrade strategy:
--1.)  %pre for main package saves old package's executables
--2.)  the postgresql init script in -server detects PGDATA existence
--     and version, notifies user if upgrade is necessary
--3.)  Rather than fully automating upgrade, the tools are provided:
--     a.)  /usr/bin/postgresql-dump
--     b.)  /usr/lib/pgsql/backup/pg_dumpall_new
--     c.)  The executables backed up by %pre in /usr/lib/pgsql/backup
--4.)  Documentation on RPM differences and upgrades in README.rpm
--5.)  A fully automatic upgrade can be facilitated by some more code
--     in /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql, if desired.
- added documentation for rpm setup, and upgrade (README.rpm)
- added newer man pages from Thomas Lockhart
- Put the PL's in the right place
-- /usr/lib/pgsql, not /usr/lib.  My error.
- Added Requires: postgresql = %{version} for all sub packages.
- Need to reorganize sources in next release, as the current number of source
-- files is a little large.

* Tue Sep 07 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
- upgraded pgaccess to the latest 0.98 stable version
- fix braindead pgaccess installation and add pgaccess dosucmenattaion to
the package containing pgaccess rather than main package
- add missing templates tp the /usr/lib/pgsql directory
- added back the PostgreSQL howto (I wish people will STOP removing
documentation from this package!)
- get rid of the perl handling overkill
- "chkconfig --del" should be done in the server package, not the main
package
- make server packeg own only /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql, not the whole
/etc/rc.d (doh!)
- don't ship OS2 executable client as documenatation...
- if we have a -tcl subpackage, make sure that other packages don't need tcl
anymore by moving tcl-dependent binaries in the -tcl package... [pltcl.so]
- if we are using /sbin/chkconfig we don't need the /etc/rc.d/rc?.d symlinks

* Sat Sep  4 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
- use _arch not (unknown!) buildarch macro (#4913).

* Fri Aug 20 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
- obsolete postgres-clients (not conflicts).

* Thu Aug 19 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
- add to Red Hat 6.1.

* Wed Aug 11 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
- Release 3lo
- Picked up pgaccess README.
- Built patch set for rpm versus tarball idiosyncrasies:
-- munged some paths in the regression tests (_OBJWD_), trigger functions
-- munged USER for regression tests.
-- Added perl and python examples
-- required patching the shebang to drop
-- local in /usr/local/bin
- Changed rc.d level from S99 to S75, as there are a few server daemons that
-- might actually need to load AFTER pgsql
-- AOLserver is an example.
- config.guess included in server package by default
-- used by regress tests.
- Preliminary test subpackage, containing entire src/test tree.
- Prebuild of binaries in the test subpackage.
- Added pgaccess-0.97 beta as /usr/bin/pgaccess97 for testing
- Removed the DATABASE-HOWTO; it was SO old, and the newer release of it
-- is a stock part of the RedHat HOWTOS package.
- Put in the RIGHT postgresql.init ('/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql')
- Noted that the perl client is operational.

* Fri Aug 6 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
- Release 2lo
- Added alpha patches courtesy Ryan Kirkpatrick and Uncle George
- Renamed lamar owen series of RPMS with release of #lo
- Put Ramifordistat as vendor and URL for lamar owen RPM series, until non-beta
-- release coordinated with PGDG.

* Mon Jul 19 1999 Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
- Correct some file misappropriations:
-- /usr/lib/pgsql was in wrong package
-- createlang, destroylang, and vacuumdb now in main package
-- ipcclean now in server subpackage
-- The static libraries are now in the devel subpackage
-- /usr/lib/plpgsql.so and /usr/lib/pltcl.so now in server
- Cleaned up some historical artifacts for readability
-- left references  to these artifacts in the changelog

* Sat Jun 19 1999 Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
- deprecate clients rpm, and define a server rpm for the backend
- version 6.5
- updated pgaccess to version 0.96
- build ODBC interface library
- split tcl and ODBC packages into separate binary rpms

--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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