to note:

1) arttype is numeric. I thought this was the best way of allowing
arbitarily large factorials, even though factorial(2^63) is a large
number. Happy to change to integers if this is overkill.
2) since we're accepting numeric arguments, the patch tests for floats.
If a numeric is passed with non-zero decimal portion, an error is raised
since (from memory) they are undefined.

Gavin Sherry

cnliou.

per gripe from Joe Sunday.

since there is no need to worry about damaged pages when we are going to
overwrite them anyway from the WAL.  Per recent discussion.

while you can actually set them with SET.

This applied patch changes the wording from "Show" to "Set".

octal escape all octets outside the range 0x20 to 0x7e. This fixes
the problem pointed out by Sergey Yatskevich here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2003-11/msg00140.php

> * Have pg_ctl look at PGHOST in case it is a socket directory

documentation; this patch removes it.

Neil Conway

> * Make LENGTH() of CHAR() not count trailing spaces
>

< * Allow clients to query WITH HOLD cursors and prepared statements
> * Allow clients to query a list of WITH HOLD cursors and prepared statements

<   manuals (Rory)
>   manuals
496c496
< * Jan is Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> of PeerDirect Corp.
> * Jan is Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> of Afilias, Inc.

make sure the $Id tags are converted to $PostgreSQL as well ...

standalone backend --- the CVS revision number of postgres.c is not real
useful to anyone.

$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...

testing $PostgreSQL$ tag

Daniel Convissor

Viktor Vislobokov

persistent_conn was left dangling after a disconnect in the
unnamed connection case, causing a subsequent disconnect to
crash the backend.

--with-openssl options.  This creates too much risk to pick up the wrong
directory accidentally (for example when there are lib64 directories), and
does not really help much with contemporary installation layouts.

was specified.

Ward's report that it can still happen in RC2 forces me to realize that
this is not a can't-happen condition after all, and that the compaction
code had better cope rather than panicking.

reported by Andrea Grassi.

they might be of a wider type.

insertion to reduce initialization time.

Vars created to fill subplan args lists.  This is an ancient error, going
back at least to 7.0, but is more easily triggered in 7.4 than before
because we no longer compare varlevelsup when deciding whether a Param
slot can be re-used.  Fixes bug reported by Klint Gore.