There's a patch attached to fix gcc 2.8.x warnings, except for the

yyerror ones from bison. It also includes a few 'enhancements' to
the C programming style (which are, of course, personal).

The other patch removes the compilation of backend/lib/qsort.c, as
qsort() is a standard function in stdlib.h and can be used any
where else (and it is). It was only used in
backend/optimizer/geqo/geqo_pool.c, backend/optimizer/path/predmig.c,
and backend/storage/page/bufpage.c

> > Some or all of these changes might not be appropriate for v6.3,
since we > > are in beta testing and since they do not affect the
current functionality.  > > For those cases, how about submitting
patches based on the final v6.3 > > release?

There's more to come. Please review these patches. I ran the
regression tests and they only failed where this was expected
(random, geo, etc).

Cheers,

Jeroen

src/backend/lib/Makefile

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #    Makefile for lib (miscellaneous stuff)
 #
 # IDENTIFICATION
-#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/lib/Makefile,v 1.9 1997/12/20 00:23:48 scrappy Exp $
+#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/lib/Makefile,v 1.10 1998/03/30 16:46:24 momjian Exp $
 #
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ INCLUDE_OPT = -I..
 
 CFLAGS+=$(INCLUDE_OPT)
 
-OBJS = bit.o fstack.o hasht.o lispsort.o qsort.o stringinfo.o dllist.o
+OBJS = bit.o fstack.o hasht.o lispsort.o stringinfo.o dllist.o
 
 all: SUBSYS.o