We plan to release PostgreSQL, version 6.4, within the next week.

An announcement will be made as soon as it is ready.  You can see the
changes for this release on our web site at the bottom of the TODO list.

We hope people will be able to upgrade within two weeks after its
release, so we fix any problems and move on to the 6.5 release.

6.4 includes a pg_upgrade utility, that will allow upgrading without a
dump/reload for 6.3.* users.

-- 
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  maillist@candle.pha.pa.us            |  (610) 853-3000
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
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Mon, 2 Nov 1998 19:22:18 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Upcoming 6.4 release issues
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

	I'm sorry if this question is answered somewhere, but does 6.4
require C++?  My main database boy doesn't have a C++ compiler, and I
don't plan on getting one for it any time in the near future.

	I tried a beta yesterday, and it compiled on 0/2 of the machines I
tried (NetBSD and IRIX).  I'm really hoping this new version might fix
some of the instability issues I had with 6.3.2 in production.

// We plan to release PostgreSQL, version 6.4, within the next week.
// 
// An announcement will be made as soon as it is ready.  You can see the
// changes for this release on our web site at the bottom of the TODO list.
// 
// We hope people will be able to upgrade within two weeks after its
// release, so we fix any problems and move on to the 6.5 release.
// 
// 6.4 includes a pg_upgrade utility, that will allow upgrading without a
// dump/reload for 6.3.* users.
// 
// -- 
//   Bruce Momjian                        |  http://www.op.net/~candle
//   maillist@candle.pha.pa.us            |  (610) 853-3000
//   +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
//   +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026
// 
// 

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Mon, 2 Nov 1998 18:49:47 -0800 (PST)
dustin sallings <dustin@spy.net>
Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming 6.4 release issues
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, dustin sallings wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> 	I'm sorry if this question is answered somewhere, but does 6.4
> require C++?  My main database boy doesn't have a C++ compiler, and I
> don't plan on getting one for it any time in the near future.

	This does not require C++ to compile, nor do I suspect it ever
will...I couldn't imagine the effort to go through to actually convert it
over to C++ :)

> 	I tried a beta yesterday, and it compiled on 0/2 of the machines I
> tried (NetBSD and IRIX).  I'm really hoping this new version might fix
> some of the instability issues I had with 6.3.2 in production.

	Please report any compile errors to pgsql-hackers ... it has been
tested on NetBSD, but I don't believe Irix has been tested...


> 
> // We plan to release PostgreSQL, version 6.4, within the next week.
> // 
> // An announcement will be made as soon as it is ready.  You can see the
> // changes for this release on our web site at the bottom of the TODO list.
> // 
> // We hope people will be able to upgrade within two weeks after its
> // release, so we fix any problems and move on to the 6.5 release.
> // 
> // 6.4 includes a pg_upgrade utility, that will allow upgrading without a
> // dump/reload for 6.3.* users.
> // 
> // -- 
> //   Bruce Momjian                        |  http://www.op.net/~candle
> //   maillist@candle.pha.pa.us            |  (610) 853-3000
> //   +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
> //   +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026
> // 
> // 
> 
> --
> SA, beyond.com                            The world is watching America,
> pub  1024/3CAE01D5 1994/11/03 Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
> |    Key fingerprint =  87 02 57 08 02 D0 DA D6  C8 0F 3E 65 51 98 D8 BE 
> L________________________________________ and America is watching TV. __
> 

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 


Mon, 2 Nov 1998 23:27:56 -0400 (AST)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming 6.4 release issues
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

	(experience with 6.4 beta 5)  I'm not on this list, so if you have
any questions, be sure to send directly to me.

// 	This does not require C++ to compile, nor do I suspect it ever
// will...I couldn't imagine the effort to go through to actually
// convert it over to C++ :)

	This is what I get when I try to configure on IRIX:

bleu:/tmp/pgsql/src 112> ./configure 
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... mips-sgi-irix6.2
checking echo setting...
checking setting template to... irix5
checking setting USE_LOCALE... disabled
checking setting CYR_RECODE... disabled
checking setting MULTIBYTE... disabled
checking setting DEF_PGPORT... 5432
checking setting USE_TCL... disabled
checking setting USE_PERL... disabled
checking setting USE_ODBC... disabled
checking setting ASSERT CHECKING... disabled
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... cc
checking whether the C compiler (cc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (cc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
- setting CPPFLAGS= 
- setting LDFLAGS= 
checking for c++... no
checking for g++... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc   ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler
cannot create executables.

	If'n I take that out of configure.in, I get a lot further.  The
problem, though, is that it's treating the lack of a C++ compiler as a
fatal condition.  I just took out the check and set HAVE_Cplusplus=false
and got to src/pl/plpgsql/src/ which needed -I. and I got it built.

// 	Please report any compile errors to pgsql-hackers ... it has
// been tested on NetBSD, but I don't believe Irix has been tested...

	I don't remember what my NetBSD problem was yet, but I'll try to
play with it later.

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Mon, 2 Nov 1998 22:22:44 -0800 (PST)
dustin sallings <dustin@spy.net>
Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming 6.4 release issues