characteristics) to be set through GUC.

I just finished changing the GENERIC files and the options(4) man page
on NetBSD to make this clearer.

have localized strings.)  Also, modernize the system catalog queries where
appropriate, e.g., with outer joins.

Add 'do { ... } while (0)' decoration to eliminate compiler warnings.

stub) into the rest of the system.  Adopt a cleaner approach to preventing
deadlock in concurrent heap_updates: allow RelationGetBufferForTuple to
select any page of the rel, and put the onus on it to lock both buffers
in a consistent order.  Remove no-longer-needed isExtend hack from
API of ReleaseAndReadBuffer.

have any newly-dead tuples on them.  This is a longstanding deficiency
that prevents VACUUM from compacting a file as much as one would expect.
Change requires fixing repair_frag to not assume that fraged_pages is
a subset of vacuum_pages.
Also make some further cleanups of places that assumed page numbers fit
in int and tuple counts fit in uint32.

Barry Lind

after writing/unpinning it.  An actual failure is unlikely, unless the
system is tremendously short of buffers ... but a bug is a bug.

for speed.

Jan

do anything yet, but it has the necessary connections to initialization
and so forth.  Make some gestures towards allowing number of blocks in
a relation to be BlockNumber, ie, unsigned int, rather than signed int.
(I doubt I got all the places that are sloppy about it, yet.)  On the
way, replace the hardwired NLOCKS_PER_XACT fudge factor with a GUC
variable.

message clean up.

confusing definitions in it.

Now the version is 7.01.0006.

directly, rather than through SetConfigOption().

directly, rather than through SetConfigOption().

IS TRUE, etc, with some degree of verisimilitude.  Split out
selectivity support functions from builtins.h into a new header
file selfuncs.h, so as to reduce the number of header files builtins.h
must depend on.  Fix a few missing inclusions exposed thereby.
From Joe Conway, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.

Here is a patch which inspired by Michael Stephens that should work

Dave Cramer

message in that case.

> > secure_ctx changes too.  it will be PGC_BACKEND after '-p'.
>
> Oh, okay, I missed that part.  Could we see the total state of the
> patch --- ie, a diff against current CVS, not a bunch of deltas?
> I've gotten confused about what's in and what's out.

Ok, here it is.  Cleared the ctx comment too - after -p
it will be PGC_BACKEND in any case.

Marko Kreen