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<ulink url="mailto:ishii@postgresql.org">Tatsuo Ishii</ulink>,

Tatsuo Ishii (<email>ishii@postgresql.org</email>),

last updated 2000-03-22.

Check <ulink

url="http://www.sra.co.jp/people/t-ishii/PostgreSQL/">Tatsuo's

* Add support for Big5 for fronend encoding

(you need to create a database with EUC_TW to use Big5)

* Add regression test case for EUC_TW

(contributed by<ulink url="mailto:jonahkuo@mail.ttn.com.tw">Jonah Kuo</ulink>)

(contributed byJonah Kuo <email>jonahkuo@mail.ttn.com.tw</email>)

Dec 15, 1998

* Bugs related to SQL_ASCII support fixed

* add octet_length()

* add --with-mb option to configure

* new regression tests for EUC_KR

(contributed by<ulink url="mailto:hong@lunaris.hanmesoft.co.kr">Soonmyung. Hong</ulink>)

(contributed bySoonmyung Hong <email>hong@lunaris.hanmesoft.co.kr</email>)

* add some test cases to the EUC_JP regression test

* fix problem in regress/regress.sh in case of System V

* fix toupper(), tolower() to handle 8bit chars

Version: 0.91 for PgSQL 6.5

Author: Pavel Behal

Revised by: Tatsuo Ishii

Email:<ulink url="mailto:behal@opf.slu.cz">behal@opf.slu.cz</ulink>

Email: behal@opf.slu.cz

Licence: The Same as PostgreSQL

Sorry for my Eglish and C code, I'm not native :-)

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Contributed by<ULink url="mailto:geek+@cmu.edu">Brian Gallew</ULink>

Contributed byBrian Gallew (<email>geek+@cmu.edu</email>)

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CVS code repository

Thomas Lockhart

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Written by<ulink url="mailto:scrappy@hub.org">Marc G. Fournier</ulink> on 1998-11-05.

Written by Marc G. Fournier (<email>scrappy@hub.org</email>) on 1998-11-05

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the <productname>Postgres</productname> source tree

is <productname>CVSup</productname>.

<productname>CVSup</productname> was developed by

<ulink url="mailto:jdp@polstra.com">John Polstra</ulink> to

John Polstra (<email>jdp@polstra.com</email>) to

distribute CVS repositories and other file trees for

<ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org">the FreeBSD project</ulink>.

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Date/time details

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Contributed by

<ulink url="mailto:jose@sferacarta.com">Jos� Soares</ulink>.

Contributed by Jos� Soares (<email>jose@sferacarta.com</email>)

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This describes an embedded <acronym>SQL</acronym> in <acronym>C</acronym>

package for <productname>Postgres</productname>.

Itis written by<ulink url="mailto:linus@epact.se">Linus Tolke</ulink>

and<ulink url="mailto:meskes@debian.org">Michael Meskes</ulink>.

Itwas written byLinus Tolke (<email>linus@epact.se</email>)

andMichael Meskes (<email>meskes@debian.org</email>).

The package is installed with the <productname>Postgres</> distribution.

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Genetic Optimizer

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Written by<ulink url="mailto:utesch@aut.tu-freiberg.de">Martin Utesch</ulink>

Written byMartin Utesch (<email>utesch@aut.tu-freiberg.de</email>)

for the Institute of Automatic Control at the University of Mining and Technology in Freiberg, Germany.

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<Note>

<Title>Author</Title>

<Para>

This extraction from ane-mail sent by

<ULink url="mailto:selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov">Eugene Selkov Jr.</ULink>

This extraction from anemail sent by

Eugene Selkov, Jr. (<email>selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov</email>)

contains good information

on GiST. Hopefully we will learn more in the future and update this information.

- thomas 1998-03-01

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<title><productname>Postgres95</productname></title>

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In 1994,

<ulink url="mailto:ayu@informix.com">Andrew Yu</ulink>

and

<ulink url="http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~jolly/">Jolly Chen</ulink>

In 1994, Andrew Yu and Jolly Chen

added a SQL language interpreter to <productname>Postgres</productname>.

<productname>Postgres95</productname> was subsequently released to

the Web to find its own way in the world as an

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Written by <ulink url="mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us">Tom Lane</ulink>

on 2000-01-24.

Written by Tom Lane (<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>) on 2000-01-24

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<title>Author</title>

<para>

Written by

<ulink url="mailto:herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il">Herouth Maoz</ulink>

Written by Herouth Maoz (<email>herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il</email>).

This originally appeared on the User's Mailing List on 1998-03-02

in response to the question:

"What is the difference between PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints?".

<note>

<title>Author</title>

<para>

This is from a reply to a question on thee-mail list

by<ulink url="mailto:aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU">Paul M. Aoki</ulink>

This is from a reply to a question on theemail list

byPaul M. Aoki (<email>aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU</email>)

on 1998-08-11.

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