permission item:

< 	o %Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL
> 	o %Allow per-database permissions to be set via GRANT
< 	  This would add a function to load the SQL table from
<           pg_hba.conf, and one to writes its contents to the flat file.
< 	  The table should have a line number that is a float so rows
< 	  can be inserted between existing rows, e.g. row 2.5 goes
< 	  between row 2 and row 3.
> 	  Allow database connection checks based on GRANT rules in
> 	  addition to the existing access checks in pg_hba.conf.

to track the number of LWLock acquisitions and the number of times we
block waiting for an LWLock, on a per-process basis.  After having needed
this twice in the past few months, seems like it should go into CVS.

of rejecting palloc(0).  Also, tweak like_selectivity() to avoid assuming
the presented pattern is nonempty; although that assumption is valid,
it doesn't really help much, and the new coding is more correct anyway
since it properly handles redundant wildcards.  In combination these
changes should eliminate a Coverity warning noted by Martijn.

failure, to reduce confusion in the log file.

whenever we start to read within that file.  The first page carries
extra identification information that really ought to be checked, but
as the code stood, this was only checked when we switched sequentially
into a new WAL file, or if by chance the starting checkpoint record was
within the first page.  This patch ensures that we will detect bogus
'long header' information before we start replaying the WAL sequence.

symbol for PPC64 hardware.  I hadn't known that Apple supported PPC64 at
all, but darn if there aren't 64-bit variant libraries in OS X as well
as support in their gcc.

< 	  encoding.
> 	  encoding.  This requires using mblen() to determine if the
> 	  backslash is inside or outside a multi-byte sequence.

>
> 	o Add new version of PQescapeString() that doesn't double backslashes
> 	  that are part of a client-only multibyte sequence
>
> 	  Single-quote is not a valid byte in any supported client-only
> 	  encoding.
>
> 	o Add new version of PQescapeString() that doesn't double
> 	  backslashes when standard_conforming_strings is true and
> 	  non-E strings are used

our to_* functions were not handling that.

no evidence that any currently-supported platform needs this, and good
reason to think that any platform that did need it couldn't use the static
libraries anyway --- libpq, at least, has circular references.  Removing
the code shuts up tsort warnings about the circular references on some
platforms.

routine, but perhaps some applications do.  Found by Martijn van Oosterhout
using Coverity.

Per Martijn van Oosterhout.

> 	  o Add reporting of the current WAL file, perhaps as part of
> 	    partial log file archiving

Backpatch.

8.0), and add as suggestion to use log_min_error_statement for this
purpose.  I also fixed the code so the first EXECUTE has it's prepare,
rather than the last which is what was in the current code.  Also remove
"protocol" prefix for SQL EXECUTE output because it is not accurate.

Backpatch to 8.1.X.

to occur between pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup(), even if the GUC
setting full_page_writes is OFF.  Per discussion, doing this in combination
with the already-existing checkpoint during pg_start_backup() should ensure
safety against partial page updates being included in the backup.  We do
not have to force full page writes to occur during normal PITR operation,
as I had first feared.

< 	o Update pg_dump and psql to use the new COPY libpq API (Christopher)
> 	o -Update pg_dump and psql to use the new COPY libpq API (Christopher)

< 	o %Have pg_dump use multi-statement transactions for INSERT dumps

entire table load.

	CREATE AGGREGATE aggname (input_type) (parameter_list)
along with the old syntax where the input type was named in the parameter
list.  This fits more naturally with the way that the aggregate is identified
in DROP AGGREGATE and other utility commands; furthermore it has a natural
extension to handle multiple-input aggregates, where the basetype-parameter
method would get ugly.  In fact, this commit fixes the grammar and all the
utility commands to support multiple-input aggregates; but DefineAggregate
rejects it because the executor isn't fixed yet.
I didn't do anything about treating agg(*) as a zero-input aggregate instead
of artificially making it a one-input aggregate, but that should be considered
in combination with supporting multi-input aggregates.

> * -Re-enable the GUC full_page_writes in 8.2 when reliability issues have

update no-longer-existing pages to fall through as no-ops, but make a note
of each page number referenced by such records.  If we don't see a later
XLOG entry dropping the table or truncating away the page, complain at
the end of XLOG replay.  Since this fixes the known failure mode for
full_page_writes = off, revert my previous band-aid patch that disabled
that GUC variable.

If a process abandons a wait in LockBufferForCleanup (in practice,
only happens if someone cancels a VACUUM) just before someone else
sends it a signal indicating the buffer is available, it was possible
for the wakeup to remain in the process' semaphore, causing misbehavior
next time the process waited for an lmgr lock.  Rather than try to
prevent the race condition directly, it seems best to make the lock
manager robust against leftover wakeups, by having it repeat waiting
on the semaphore if the lock has not actually been granted or denied
yet.

alternatives ("|" symbol).  The original coding allowed the added ^ and $
constraints to be absorbed into the first and last alternatives, producing
a pattern that would match more than it should.  Per report from Eric Noriega.

I also changed the pattern to add an ARE director ("***:"), ensuring that
SIMILAR TO patterns do not change behavior if regex_flavor is changed.  This
is necessary to make the non-capturing parentheses work, and seems like a
good idea on general principles.

Back-patched as far as 7.4.  7.3 also has the bug, but a fix seems impractical
because that version's regex engine doesn't have non-capturing parens.

At any rate, here's a revision to CVS HEAD to reflect some changes by
myself and by Seneca Cunningham for the AIX FAQ.  It touches on the
following issues:

1.  memcpy pointer patch for dynahash.c

2.  AIX memory management, which can, for 32 bit cases, bite people
    quite unexpectedly...

Chris Browne

<   multiple I/O channels simultaneously.
>   multiple I/O channels simultaneously.  One idea is to create a
>   background reader that can pre-fetch sequential and index scan
>   pages needed by other backends.  This could be expanded to allow
>   concurrent reads from multiple devices in a partitioned table.

upper-level insertion completes a previously-seen split, we cannot simply grab
the downlink block number out of the buffer, because the buffer could contain
a later state of the page --- or perhaps the page doesn't even exist at all
any more, due to relation truncation.  These possibilities have been masked up
to now because the use of full_page_writes effectively ensured that no xlog
replay routine ever actually saw a page state newer than its own change.
Since we're deprecating full_page_writes in 8.1.*, there's no need to fix this
in existing release branches, but we need a fix in HEAD if we want to have any
hope of re-allowing full_page_writes.  Accordingly, adjust the contents of
btree WAL records so that we can always get the downlink block number from the
WAL record rather than having to depend on buffer contents.  Per report from
Kevin Grittner and Peter Brant.

Improve a few comments in related code while at it.

original coding only worked if one of the selTypes restriction options
was also given.  Per report from Nick Johnson.

jw.pgsql@sduept.com

    <P>The maximum table size, row size, and maximum number of columns
    can be quadrupled by increasing the default block size to 32k.  The
    maximum table size can also be increased using table partitioning.</P>

J.Kuwamura

J.Kuwamura