Re: Open Issues for 7.4

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Open Issues for 7.4
Date: 2003-11-05 20:31:20
Message-ID: 20031105162958.O11434@ganymede.hub.org
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On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Here are some issues that might need to be addressed before 7.4 goes out:
>
> * ECPG has some new include files such as
>
> datetime.h
> decimal.h
>
> that come as part of the Informix compatibility mode. I don't think these
> should be installed directly in $includedir because of potential
> conflicts. We can't rename them either, without ruining the compatibility
> aspect. So I'm looking for suggestions about what to do with them.

could they not be installed in $includedir/informix? building software
with them should just be a matter of adding -I$includedir/informix, no?

> * I've generated new man pages that are on the ftp server under
> pub/dev/doc/man-7.4.tar.gz. They need to be copied into the release
> tarball as doc/man.tar.gz. This was a lot of manual work this time, so
> any further reference page changes need to be integrated by hand.

I changed the build script to rename appropriately, and RC1 should have
the proper files in place ... no?

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