Release schedule

On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Looking over the list of open items, it seems we are on target for a
November 1 release. I think that is the date Marc had in mind, and it
looks like we are in good shape, assuming I can fix the "vacuum crash"
item.

I don't think we can release without the 'ps' args fix, and we can't
turn that off because it caused by the fork() removal I did long ago.

Most humble apologies...I have a bad hard drive in my machine that
I'm just recovering from (and awaiting replacement for *sigh*)...am
spending a good portion of today at the office trying to get things back
on track...

Currently am doing a build on Solaris x86/Sparc 2.6, as well as
FreeBSD, but the FreeBSD one is kind of a munged machine until my home
machine is fixed *sigh*

If I get a clean build off of both x86/Sparc of Solaris, and
unless there are any major objections, I'm going to put out a
beta2...'ps' args fix to follow shortly...

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Additions
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test new cidr/IP address type(Tom Helbekkmo)
complete rewrite system changes(Jan)
CREATE TABLE test (x text, s serial) fails if no database creation permission
regression test all platforms
vacuum crash

Serious Items
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change pg args for platforms that don't support argv changes
(setproctitle()?, sendmail hack?)

Docs
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man pages/sgml synchronization
generate html/postscript documentation
make sure all changes are documented properly

Minor items
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cnf-ify still can exhaust memory, make SET KSQO more generic
permissions on indexes: what do they do? should it be prevented?
multi-verion concurrency control - work-in-progress for 6.5
improve reporting of syntax errors by showing location of error in query
use index with constants on functions
allow chaining of pages to allow >8k tuples
allow multiple generic operators in expressions without the use of parentheses
document/trigger/rule so changes to pg_shadow create pg_pwd
large objects orphanage
improve group handling
no min/max for oid type
improve PRIMARY KEY handling
generate postmaster pid file and remove flock/fcntl lock code

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