Thu Jun 30 18:13:01 PDT 1994 With any luck, this is the final release of POSTGRES version 4 release 2. All of the random installation problems (and a couple of bugs) from the alpha and beta releases *should* be ironed out. If you run into any major problems installing or running this release then send mail to: bug-postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Jul 11 12:57:36 PDT 1994 There don't seem to be any reported problems with the installation. The file postgres-v4r2-RCS.tar.Z is the same source tree as that contained in postgres-v4r2.tar.Z, but - RCS directories are included. - things are not "packaged up" in the same way (src/Makefile.global may require editing, directories may need to be created or chmod'ed, etc.). Note that src/backend/utils/fmgr/RCS/fmgr.c,v has some bad blocks in it from somewhere in the sordid past (1991 or so). Sorry, we can't do anything about it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Jul 15 02:58:21 PDT 1994 The kernel patch required for Ultrix 4.3 has been moved to the ULTRIX-4 subdirectory. A prebuilt system for SPARCs running Solaris 2.3 (including a prepatched and precompiled gcc 2.5.8) has been placed in the SOLARIS-2.3 subdirectory. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Feb 23 09:43:55 PST 1995 Look in ../unofficial-patches for user-contributed patches. Patches 1 and 2 are particularly useful. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Jul 21 13:21:33 PDT 1995 WARNING TO INTERNATIONAL USERS: The international versions of certain text processing utilities in sunos 4.1.x (e.g., awk and sed) appear to have bugs such that the postgres build mechanism fails. Users in Japan and Korea seem to have reported all of the problems. To build postgres 4.2, you have several choices: - use the non-international versions of these utilities - use the equivalent GNU utilities (e.g., gnu awk) - use the generated files in ../unofficial-patches/6 --------------------------------------------------------------------------