several fragments a-la Google.

Sushant Sinha <sushant354@gmail.com>

Patch from Sushant Sinha <sushant354@gmail.com>
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg00785.php

is NULL but SK_SEARCHNULL is not set. Add checking IS NULL of keys
to set during key initialization. If key is NULL and SK_SEARCHNULL is not
set then nothnig can be satisfied.
With assert-enabled compilation that causes coredump.

Bug was introduced in 8.3 by support of IS NULL index scan.

In the previous coding, the list of columns that needed to be hashed on
was allocated in the per-query context, but we reallocated every time
the Agg node was rescanned. Since this information doesn't change over
a rescan, just construct the list of columns once during ExecInitAgg().

ITAGAKI Takahiro

according to the TupleDesc's natts, not the number of physical columns in the
tuple.  The previous coding would do the wrong thing in cases where natts is
different from the tuple's column count: either incorrectly report error when
it should just treat the column as null, or actually crash due to indexing off
the end of the TupleDesc's attribute array.  (The second case is probably not
possible in modern PG versions, due to more careful handling of inheritance
cases than we once had.  But it's still a clear lack of robustness here.)

The incorrect error indication is ignored by all callers within the core PG
distribution, so this bug has no symptoms visible within the core code, but
it might well be an issue for add-on packages.  So patch all the way back.

lengthof(SysAtt) not FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber, for consistency with
the other uses of the SysAtt array, and to make it clearer that it doesn't
walk off the end of that array.

Formerly, the lack of any opclasses that could accept such data was enough
of a defense, but now with a "record" opclass we need to check more carefully.
(You can still use that opclass for an index, but you have to store a named
composite type not an anonymous one.)

pointers.  This is only a whitespace change, which ought to be ignored
by regression testing, but for some reason buildfarm member spoonbill
doesn't like it.

by renaming the new copies after the catalog games.

the timestamp types.  Turns out this doesn't even reduce the available
range of dates, since the restriction to dates that work for Julian-date
arithmetic is much tighter than the int32 range anyway.  Per a longstanding
TODO item.

returning a failure code that none of its callers bothered to check for.

fsync requests. This should fix the installcheck failure of the buildfarm
member "kudu".

depth-first search order.  Upon close reading of SQL:2008, it seems that the
spec's SEARCH DEPTH FIRST and SEARCH BREADTH FIRST options do not actually
guarantee any particular result order: what they do is provide a constructed
column that the user can then sort on in the outer query.  So this is actually
just as much functionality ...

detection.

pseudo-type record[] to represent arrays of possibly-anonymous composite
types.  Since composite datums carry their own type identification, no
extra knowledge is needed at the array level.

The main reason for doing this right now is that it is necessary to support
the general case of detection of cycles in recursive queries: if you need to
compare more than one column to detect a cycle, you need to compare a ROW()
to an array built from ROW()s, at least if you want to do it as the spec
suggests.  Add some documentation and regression tests concerning the cycle
detection issue.

RecursiveUnion to which it refers.  It turns out that we can just postpone the
relevant initialization steps until the first exec call for the node, by which
time the ancestor node must surely be initialized.  Per report from Greg Stark.

Per gripe from Bill Thoen.

for bitmap index scans.  Per report and test case from Kevin Grittner.

Depesz Lubaczewski.  In HEAD, also move a couple of other cases to make the
code ordering match up with ProcessUtility.

it can handle functions returning setof record.  The case was left undone
originally, but it turns out to be simple to fix.

the ereport macro.  Included in this commit are enough files for starting
plpgsql, plpython, plperl and pltcl translations.

the isTrigger state explicitly, not rely on nonzero-ness of trigrelOid
to indicate trigger-hood, because trigrelOid will be left zero when compiling
for validation.  The (useless) function hash entry built by the validator
was able to match an ordinary non-trigger call later in the same session,
thereby bypassing the check that is supposed to prevent such a call.
Per report from Alvaro.

It might be worth suppressing the useless hash entry altogether, but
that's a bigger change than I want to consider back-patching.

Back-patch to 8.0.  7.4 doesn't have the problem because it doesn't
have validation mode.

Report and fix by Michael McMaster.  Some minor code beautification by me,
also avoid memory leaks in the special-case paths.

to process any pending unlinks for the source database.

Before, if you dropped a relation in the template database just before
CREATE DATABASE, and a checkpoint happened during copydir(), the checkpoint
might delete a file that we're just about to copy, causing lstat() in
copydir() to fail with ENOENT.

Backpatch to 8.3, where the pending unlinks were introduced.

Per report by Matthew Wakeling and analysis by Tom Lane.

of referencing a WITH item that's not yet in scope according to the SQL
spec's semantics.  This seems to be an easy error to make, and the bare
"relation doesn't exist" message doesn't lead one's mind in the correct
direction to fix it.

Jun Kuwamura

implementation uses an in-memory hash table, so it will poop out for very
large recursive results ... but the performance characteristics of a
sort-based implementation would be pretty unpleasant too.

use the old relfilenode in the new tablespace. There might be another relation
in the new tablespace with the same relfilenode, so we must generate a fresh
relfilenode in the new tablespace.

The 8.3 patch to let deleted relation files linger as zero-length files until
the next checkpoint made this more obvious: moving a relation from one table
space another, and then back again, caused a collision with the lingering
file.

Back-patch to 8.1. The issue is present in 8.0 as well, but it doesn't seem
worth fixing there, because we didn't have protection from OID collisions
after OID wraparound before 8.1.

Report by Guillaume Lelarge.

supplies an expression that can't be coerced to the target column type.
The code previously attempted to point at the target column name, which
doesn't work at all in an INSERT with omitted column name list, and is
also not remarkably helpful when the problem is buried somewhere in a
long INSERT-multi-VALUES command.  Make it point at the failed expression
instead.