if pd_lower > pd_upper, rather than merely claiming to.  This would
only matter if the page header were corrupt, which shouldn't occur,
but ...

authentication.

issue a helpful error message instead of sending unparsable garbage.
(It is clearly a design error that this doesn't work, but fixing it
is not worth the trouble at this point.)  Per discussion.

the parser supplies a default typmod that can result in data loss (ie,
truncation).  Currently that appears to be only CHARACTER and BIT.
We can avoid the problem by specifying the type's internal name instead
of using SQL-spec syntax.  Since the queries generated here are only used
internally, there's no need to worry about portability.  This problem is
new in 8.3; before we just let the parser do whatever it wanted to resolve
the operator, but 8.3 is trying to be sure that the semantics of FK checks
are consistent.  Per report from Harald Fuchs.

statement be a list of bare C strings, rather than String nodes, which is
what they need to be for copyfuncs/equalfuncs to work.  Fortunately these
node types never go out to disk (if they did, we'd likely have noticed the
problem sooner), so we can just fix it without creating a need for initdb.
This bug has been there since 8.0, but 8.3 exposes it in a more common
code path (Parse messages) than prior releases did.  Per bug #3940 from
Vladimir Kokovic.

AlterTSConfigurationStmt.  All utility statement node types are expected
to be supported here, though they do not have to have outfuncs/readfuncs
support.  Found by running regression tests with COPY_PARSE_PLAN_TREES
enabled.

that contains spaces.

Per complaint from Gevik Babakhani, like the last one.

into an iteration over three parallel lists, I had accidentally put the lnext
steps outside the loop.  Sigh.  Per bug #3938.

tablespace permissions failures when copying an index that is in the
database's default tablespace.  A side-effect of the change is that explicitly
specifying the default tablespace no longer triggers a permissions check;
this is not how it was done in pre-8.3 releases but is argued to be more
consistent.  Per bug #3921 from Andrew Gilligan.  (Note: I argued in the
subsequent discussion that maybe LIKE shouldn't copy index tablespaces
at all, but since no one indicated agreement with that idea, I've refrained
from doing it.)

gettext.

- Free all memory in auto-prepare mode.

in .bat simply did not work, and it called them in the wrong order,
some several times, and some not at all. So this unrolls all subroutine
calls.

This should fix the issues with clean deleting the wrong files reported
by Dave Page.

While at it, add the "clean dist" option to act like "make distclean",
and no longer remove the flex/bison output files by default. This shuold
fix the problem reported by Pavel Golub in bug #3909.

Gevik Babakhani

Also make links clickable.

to wit in the description of that variable rather than some other one.

erroring out of a wait.  We can use a PG_TRY block for this, but add a comment
explaining why it'd be a bad idea to use it for any other state cleanup.

Back-patch to 8.2.  Prior releases had the same issue, but only with respect
to the process title, which is likely to get reset almost immediately anyway
after the transaction aborts, so it seems not worth changing them.  In 8.2
and HEAD, the pg_stat_activity "waiting" flag could remain set incorrectly
for a long time.

Per report from Gurjeet Singh.

configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

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> * Improve deadlock detection when a page cleaning lock conflicts
>   with a shared buffer that is pinned

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name of the needed symlink file.

Update expected release date.

buildfarm plus a narrative description of the CPU types and operating systems
on which Postgres is likely to work.  Now that we've almost completely
decoupled CPU and OS considerations, the former tabular style isn't all that
enlightening anyway.  Perhaps more importantly, no one seems particularly
interested in maintaining the table by hand when we have the buildfarm.

work with the PQExpBuffer code instead of fighting it.  This avoids an
unnecessary limit on message length and fixes the latent bug that
errorMessage.len wasn't getting set.

prevent anti-wraparound vacuuming, and to caution against setting unreasonably
small values of freeze_max_age.  Also put in a notice that this catalog is
likely to disappear entirely in some future release.  Per discussion of
bug #3898 from Steven Flatt.

spoofing when the socket file has been moved.

> * Improve deadlock detection when deleting items from shared buffers
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-01/msg00138.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00873.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-01/msg00365.php

Should fix a problem where two clusters are running under
two different service accounts and get colliding names,
causing only the first cluster to contain the pgident
event description.

Per report from Stephen Denne.

Keep the intermediate symbol file rather then blowing it away, for easier debugging.

operations when the current transaction has any open references to the
target relation or index (implying it has an active query using the relation).
The need for this was previously recognized in connection with ALTER TABLE,
but anything that summarily eliminates tuples or moves them around would
confuse an active scan.

While this patch does not in itself fix bug #3883 (the deadlock would happen
before the new check fires), it will discourage people from attempting the
sequence of operations that creates a deadlock risk, so it's at least a
partial response to that problem.

In passing, add a previously-missing check to REINDEX to prevent trying to
reindex another backend's temp table.  This isn't a security problem since
only a superuser would get past the schema permission checks, but if we are
testing for this in other utility commands then surely REINDEX should too.

synchronized-scanning behavior, and make pg_dump disable sync scans so that
it will reliably preserve row ordering.  Per recent discussions.