Andreas Pflug

environment variable processing to libpq.

The patch also adds code to our client apps so we set the environment
variable directly based on our binary location, unless it is already
set. This will allow our applications to emit proper locale messages
that are generated in libpq.

Specifically, point out that intersecting points in a path will yield
(most likely), unexpected results.  Visually these are identical paths,
but mathematically they're not the same.  Ex:

  area |                                           plan
------
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------
    -0 | ((0,0),(0,1),(2,1),(2,2),(1,2),(1,0),(0,0))
     2 | ((0,0),(0,1),(1,1),(1,2),(2,2),(2,1),(1,1),(1,0),(0,0))

The current algorithm for area(PATH) is very quick, but only handles
non-intersecting paths.  I'm going to work on two other functions for
the PATH data type that determines if a PATH is intersecting or not,
and a function that returns the area() for an intersecting PATH.  The
intersecting area() function will be considerably slower (I think it's
going to be O(n!) or worse instead of the current O(n), but that comes
with the territory).

Sean Chittenden

(cancel and terminate) signals to other backends.   They permit only INT
and TERM, and permits sending only to postgresql backends.

Magnus Hagander

Has docs + regression test.

Christopher Kings-Lynne

locking conflict against concurrent CHECKPOINT that was discussed a few
weeks ago.  Also, if not using WAL archiving (which is always true ATM
but won't be if PITR makes it into this release), there's no need to
WAL-log the index build process; it's sufficient to force-fsync the
completed index before commit.  This seems to gain about a factor of 2
in my tests, which is consistent with writing half as much data.  I did
not try it with WAL on a separate drive though --- probably the gain would
be a lot less in that scenario.

of bug report #1150.  Also, arrange that the object owner's irrevocable
grant-option permissions are handled implicitly by the system rather than
being listed in the ACL as self-granted rights (which was wrong anyway).
I did not take the further step of showing these permissions in an
explicit 'granted by _SYSTEM' ACL entry, as that seemed more likely to
bollix up existing clients than to do anything really useful.  It's still
a possible future direction, though.

being a plain List.

Add locale to pg_ctl.c.

temp tables, and avoid WAL-logging truncations of temp tables.  Do issue
fsync on truncated files (not sure this is necessary but it seems like
a good idea).

rather than an error code, and does elog(ERROR) not elog(WARNING)
when it detects a problem.  All callers were simply elog(ERROR)'ing on
failure return anyway, and I find it hard to envision a caller that would
not, so we may as well simplify the callers and produce the more useful
error message directly.

is actually needed.  Per Oliver Elphick.

issue in timestamp conversion that we hacked around for so long by
ignoring the seconds field from localtime().  It's simple: you have
to watch out for platform-specific roundoff error when reducing a
possibly-fractional timestamp to integral time_t form.  In particular
we should subtract off the already-determined fractional fsec field.
This should be enough to get an exact answer with int64 timestamps;
with float timestamps, throw in a rint() call just to be sure.

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	The pg_trgm contrib module provides functions and index classes
	for determining the similarity of text based on trigram
	matching.

2 remove select qeury in inserts

explicitly fsync'ing every (non-temp) file we have written since the
last checkpoint.  In the vast majority of cases, the burden of the
fsyncs should fall on the bgwriter process not on backends.  (To this
end, we assume that an fsync issued by the bgwriter will force out
blocks written to the same file by other processes using other file
descriptors.  Anyone have a problem with that?)  This makes the world
safe for WIN32, which ain't even got sync(2), and really makes the world
safe for Unixen as well, because sync(2) never had the semantics we need:
it offers no way to wait for the requested I/O to finish.

Along the way, fix a bug I recently introduced in xlog recovery:
file truncation replay failed to clear bufmgr buffers for the dropped
blocks, which could result in 'PANIC:  heap_delete_redo: no block'
later on in xlog replay.

> 	o -Allow Java server-side programming

list compatibility API by default. While doing this, I decided to keep
the llast() macro around and introduce llast_int() and llast_oid() variants.

never executed SIBackendInit().

In passing, align a few error messages with the style guide.

than being random pieces of other files.  Give bgwriter responsibility
for all checkpoint activity (other than a post-recovery checkpoint);
so this child process absorbs the functionality of the former transient
checkpoint and shutdown subprocesses.  While at it, create an actual
include file for postmaster.c, which for some reason never had its own
file before.