Here is a trivial patch to get back the 1.09 behavior; it just removes trailing
newlines before printing the line out with a newline rather than after...
Thomas Lockhart
At least the first two should be fixed before the final release of 6.0.
1) There is a mismatch between the type declared in the catalog for
the input/output attributes of pg_type and the actual type of
values stored in the table. The type of typinput, typoutput,
typsend and typreceive are declared oid (26) while the values are
regproc (24). The error was there also in previous versions but
nobody noticed it until an Assert has been added in ExecEvalVar.
The effect is that it is now impossible to replace the typoutput
of existing data types with new procs.
2) The identd hba fails after the first time because the data read
from the identd socket is not zero-terminated and strlen reports
an incorrect length if the stack contains garbage, which usually
happens after the first connection has been made.
3) The new initdb wants to create itself the data directory. This
implies that the parent directory must be writable by postgres and
this may not always be desirable. A better solution would be to
allow the directory to be created by root and then filled by initdb.
It would also nice to have some reasonable default for PGLIB and
PGDATA like the previous version did. This applies also to the
postmaster executable.
gmake of the code without interruption.
There's also some tidy-up of the MAXPATHLEN stuff based on the assumption that
all supported platforms have MAXPATHLEN defined in <sys/param.h>.
(The only unknowns for the above are AIX and IRIX5.)
In particular, no more compiled-in default for PGDATA or LIBDIR. Commands
that need them need either invocation options or environment variables.
PGPORT default is hardcoded as 5432, but overrideable with options or
environment variables.
