The old claim is from my commit d06ebdb8 of
2000-07-17, but it seems to have been a plain old thinko; sum(float4) has
been distinct from sum(float8) since Berkeley days.  Noted by KaiGai Kohei.

While at it, mention the existence of sum(money), which is also of
embarrassingly ancient vintage.

Update the tab completion for the changes made in
3c4cf080, which rework 'MOVE ALL' to be
'ALTER .. ALL IN TABLESPACE'.

Fujii Masao

Back-patch to 9.4, as the original change was.

Report by Erik Rijkers

Backpatch through 9.4

This is for postgres/postmaster options.

Report by Tom Lane

Backpatch through 9.4

Use consistent format for all such displays.

Report by Gavin Flower

This is useful for replication tools like Slony and Skytools.

Report by Sergey Konoplev

Peer rows are matching rows when ORDER BY is specified.

Report by arnaud.mouronval@gmail.com, David G Johnston

Also add C comments.  This should help future debugging of this
notorious file.

Back-patch to 9.4 where user_catalog_table was added.

Review by Michael Paquier

The link to the NIST web page about DES standards leads to nowhere, and
according to archive.org has been forwarded to an unrelated page for
many years.  Therefore, just remove that link.  More up to date
information can be found via Wikipedia, for example.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

Per bug #11335 from Haruka Takatsuka

Peter Geoghegan

Previously \watch could not display the query execution time even
when \timing was enabled because it used PSQLexec instead of
SendQuery and that function didn't support \timing. This patch
introduces PSQLexecWatch and changes \watch so as to use it, instead.
PSQLexecWatch is the function to run the query, print its results and
display how long it took (only when \timing is enabled).

This patch also changes --echo-hidden so that it doesn't print
the query that \watch executes. Since \watch cannot execute
backslash command queries, they should not be printed even
when --echo-hidden is set.

Patch by me, review by Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier

Report by Peter Eisentraut

Report by Tomáš Greif

Backpatch through 9.4

CREATE TABLE INHERIT moves user-specified columns to the location of the
inherited column.

Report by Fatal Majid

The number of % parameter markers in RAISE statement should match the number
of parameters given. We used to check that at execution time, but we have
all the information needed at compile time, so let's check it at compile
time instead. It's generally better to find mistakes earlier.

Marko Tiikkaja, reviewed by Fabien Coelho

Every redo routine uses the same idiom to determine what to do to a page:
check if there's a backup block for it, and if not read, the buffer if the
block exists, and check its LSN. Refactor that into a common function,
XLogReadBufferForRedo, making all the redo routines shorter and more
readable.

This has no user-visible effect, and makes no changes to the WAL format.

Reviewed by Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier.

Andres Freund

The new %l substitution shows the line number inside a (potentially
multi-line) statement starting from one.

Author: Sawada Masahiko, heavily editorialized by me.
Reviewed-By: Jeevan Chalke, Alvaro Herrera

This patch allows us to execute ALTER SYSTEM RESET command to
remove the configuration entry from postgresql.auto.conf.

Vik Fearing, reviewed by Amit Kapila and me.

Introduced in commit 11a020eb.

The regression tests for contrib/test_decoding regularly failed on
postgres instances that were very slow. Either because the hardware
itself was slow or because very expensive debugging options like
CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS were used.

The reason they failed was just that some additional transactions were
decoded. Analyze and vacuum, triggered by autovac.

To fix just add a option to test_decoding to only display transactions
in which a change was actually displayed. That's not pretty because it
removes information from the tests; but better than constantly failing
tests in very likely harmless ways.

Backpatch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced.

Discussion: 20140629142511.GA26930@awork2.anarazel.de

Michael Paquier

68a2e52b has introduced LWLockAcquireCommon() containing the
previous contents of LWLockAcquire() plus added functionality. The
latter then calls it, just like LWLockAcquireWithVar(). Because the
majority of callers don't need the added functionality, declare the
common code as inline. The compiler then can optimize away the unused
code. Doing so is also useful when looking at profiles, to
differentiate the users.

Backpatch to 9.4, the first branch to contain LWLockAcquireCommon().

Found via clang's -Wmissing-variable-declarations.

Neither is accessed externally, I just seem to have missed the static
when writing the code.

Errors detected using Topy (https://github.com/intgr/topy), all
changes verified by hand and some manual tweaks added.

Marti Raudsepp

Individual changes backpatched, where applicable, as far as 9.0.

Since the dawn of time (aka Postgres95) multiple pins of the same
buffer by one backend have been optimized not to modify the shared
refcount more than once. This optimization has always used a NBuffer
sized array in each backend keeping track of a backend's pins.

That array (PrivateRefCount) was one of the biggest per-backend memory
allocations, depending on the shared_buffers setting. Besides the
waste of memory it also has proven to be a performance bottleneck when
assertions are enabled as we make sure that there's no remaining pins
left at the end of transactions. Also, on servers with lots of memory
and a correspondingly high shared_buffers setting the amount of random
memory accesses can also lead to poor cpu cache efficiency.

Because of these reasons a backend's buffers pins are now kept track
of in a small statically sized array that overflows into a hash table
when necessary. Benchmarks have shown neutral to positive performance
results with considerably lower memory usage.

Patch by me, review by Robert Haas.

Discussion: 20140321182231.GA17111@alap3.anarazel.de

Indicates if column has ever been local/non-inherited

Also update docs to mention which function are super-user-only.

Report by sys-milan@statpro.com

Backpatch through 9.4

The list of posting lists it's dealing with can contain placeholders for
deleted posting lists. The placeholders are kept around so that they can
be WAL-logged, but we must be careful to not try to access them.

This fixes bug #11280, reported by Mårten Svantesson. Backpatch to 9.4,
where the compressed data leaf page code was added.

It was changed when ALTER TABLESPACE / MOVE was added but then not
updated when that was moved back out.

Haribabu Kommi, reviewed by Muhammad Asif Naeem

Commit a16bac36 let "configure" detect
the system getaddrinfo() when building under 64-bit MinGW-w64.  However,
src/include/port/win32/sys/socket.h assumes all native Windows
configurations use our replacement.  This change placates buildfarm
member jacana until we establish a plan for getaddrinfo() on Windows.

In commit 45e02e32, we intentionally
disallowed updates on individual elements of oidvector columns.  While that
still seems like a sane idea in the abstract, we (I) forgot that citext's
"upgrade from unpackaged" script did in fact perform exactly such updates,
in order to fix the problem that citext indexes should have a collation
but would not in databases dumped or upgraded from pre-9.1 installations.

Even if we wanted to add casts to allow such updates, there's no practical
way to do so in the back branches, so the only real alternative is to make
citext's kluge even klugier.  In this patch, I cast the oidvector to text,
fix its contents with regexp_replace, and cast back to oidvector.  (Ugh!)

Since the aforementioned commit went into all active branches, we have to
fix this in all branches that contain the now-broken update script.

Per report from Eric Malm.