Release 6.3.1

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# E.131. Release 6.3.1

> Release date: 1998-03-23

Summary:

- Additional support for multibyte character sets.

- Repair byte ordering for mixed-endian clients and servers.

- Minor updates to allowed SQL syntax.

- Improvements to the configuration autodetection for installation.

A dump/restore is NOT required for those running 6.3. A `make distclean`, `make`, and `make install` is all that is required. This last step should be performed while the postmaster is not running. You should re-link any custom applications that use PostgreSQL libraries.

For upgrades from pre-6.3 installations, refer to the installation and migration instructions for version 6.3.

## E.131.1. Changes

    ecpg cleanup/fixes, now version 1.1(Michael Meskes)
    pg_user cleanup(Bruce)
    large object fix for pg_dump and tclsh (alvin)
    LIKE fix for multiple adjacent underscores
    fix for redefining builtin functions(Thomas)
    ultrix4 cleanup
    upgrade to pg_access 0.83
    updated CLUSTER manual page
    multibyte character set support, see doc/README.mb(Tatsuo)
    configure --with-pgport fix
    pg_ident fix
    big-endian fix for backend communications(Kataoka)
    SUBSTR() and substring() fix(Jan)
    several jdbc fixes(Peter)
    libpgtcl improvements, see libptcl/README(Randy Kunkee)
    Fix for "Datasize = 0" error(Vadim)
    Prevent \do from wrapping(Bruce)
    Remove duplicate Russian character set entries
    Sunos4 cleanup
    Allow optional TABLE key word in LOCK and SELECT INTO(Thomas)
    CREATE SEQUENCE options to allow a negative integer(Thomas)
    Add "PASSWORD" as an allowed column identifier(Thomas)
    Add checks for UNION target fields(Bruce)
    Fix Alpha port(Dwayne Bailey)
    Fix for text arrays containing quotes(Doug Gibson)
    Solaris compile fix(Albert Chin-A-Young)
    Better identify tcl and tk libs and includes(Bruce)

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