Nearing final release?

I think we are getting closer to a final release. I haven't seen many
_major_ failures in a few weeks, and the open items list is shrinking. I
would like us to make a concentrated effort to address or fix all the
open items by November 1 and consider a final 8.0 release during November.

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PostgreSQL 8.0 Open Items
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Current version at http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgopenitems.

Changes
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* Win32
o fix query cancel in psql (?)
o fix shared memory on Win2k terminal server
o fix MSVC build to export SSL symbols
o SIG_DFL handling
o Handle "lost signals" on backend startup (eg. shutdown,
config file changes, etc)
* Tablespace
o fix ambiguity for objects using default tablespaces
o fix case where template db already uses target tablespace
o fix error message when creating objects in schema that has a
dropped tablespace as its default
o remove non-portable TABLESPACE clause from CREATE TABLE using
a SET or ALTER command
* allow libpq to check parameterized data types
* adjust bgwriter defaults, allow disabling
* synchonize supported encodings and docs

Completed Since Previoius Beta
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* cleanup FRONTEND use in /port, malloc, elog
* update encoding list to include win1250
* make pgxs install by default
* Win32
o disable readline-required psql options
o fix SSL compiles
o add binary version stamps
o fix signal-safe socket handler for SSL
o start pg_autovacuum easily
o remove log timezone string from log_line_prefix '%t'
o fix MinGW libpq to export only required symbols

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