Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 22:36:39 +0100 (CET)
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>, webmaster@postgresql.org,
	PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] 6.5.3 diff
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911081708130.2296-100000@thelab.hub.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.9911082234320.4161-100000@peter-e.yi.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: Peter Eisentraut <peter@peter-e.yi.org>

On 1999-11-08, The Hermit Hacker mentioned:

> On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 
> > On 1999-11-05, Bruce Momjian mentioned:
> > 
> > > The web page says we have a 6.5.3 diff, but there is no diff file on
> > > the ftp site.
> > 
> > I think Marc is no longer making patches because we always complain about
> > his diff program ;)
> 
> Well, actually, you got 50% of the quote in there *grin*  I'm willing to
> make the patch, jsut someone want to give me what *they* consider to be a
> *good* 'diff' command to use? :)  What do projects like 'gcc' use to
> generate their diffs?

Hmm. GNU diffutils maybe? They have been at version 2.7 forever, it
seems. On the other hand Bruce had a point that with the addition of
pgaccess the 6.5.2->6.5.3 patch would be rather large. How about one from
6.5.1->6.5.3 and we can reverse patch.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut                  Sernanders vaeg 10:115
peter_e@gmx.net                   75262 Uppsala
http://yi.org/peter-e/            Sweden