< * Add NO WAIT option to various SQL commands
> * -Add NO WAIT LOCKs

    process directly.  Some parameters can only be set at server start;
    any changes to their entries in the configuration file will be ignored
    until the server is restarted.

> * Allow AFTER triggers on system tables

> * -Exit postmaster if postgresql.conf can not be opened

> >> have to accept a full table scan when locating records.
> >
> > It indexes them, but "is null" is not an indexable operator, so you
> > can't directly solve the above with a 3-column index.  What you can do
> > instead is use a partial index, for instance
> >
> > create index i on CUSTOMER.WCCustOrderStatusLog (WCOrderStatusID)
> > where Acknowledged is null and Processing is null;
>
> That's a very nifty trick and exactly the sort of answer I was after!

Add CREATE INDEX doc mention of using partial indexes for IS NULL
indexing;  idea from Tom.

Remove all of the libpgtcl and pgtclsh files, including all references to
them within the various makefiles

with_tcl is still required for the src/pl/tcl language

reference DEALLOCATE in any way. It points to EXECUTE, but not to
DEALLOCATE. Suggested fix:

... This also means that a single  prepared statement cannot be used by
multiple simultaneous database clients; however, each client can create
their own prepared statement  to use. The prepared statement can be
manually cleaned up using the DEALLOCATE command.

James Robinson

of VACUUM cases so that VACUUM requests don't affect the ARC state at all,
avoid corner case where BufferSync would uselessly rewrite a buffer that
no longer contains the page that was to be flushed.  Make some minor
other cleanups in and around the bufmgr as well, such as moving PinBuffer
and UnpinBuffer into bufmgr.c where they really belong.

Create diff of custom changes Tom made to the utility for CREATE
FUNCTION.

This will make moving this utility out of CVS easier.

	http://www.omnistarinc.com/~fonin/downloads.php#my2pg

one apparent error and makes a minor stylistic change that makes it more
consistent and makes clear something that confused me :-)

Andrew Dunstan

Fix for code originally added for 7.5.

* removed a few redundant defines
* get_user_name safe under win32
* rationalized pipe read EOF for win32 (UPDATED PATCH USED)
* changed all backend instances of sleep() to pg_usleep

    - except for the SLEEP_ON_ASSERT in assert.c, as it would exceed a
32-bit long [Note to patcher: If a SLEEP_ON_ASSERT of 2000 seconds is
acceptable, please replace with pg_usleep(2000000000L)]

I added a comment to that part of the code:

    /*
     *  It would be nice to use pg_usleep() here, but only does 2000 sec
     *  or 33 minutes, which seems too short.
     */
    sleep(1000000);

Claudio Natoli

        o -Allow dump/load of CSV format

This adds new keywords to COPY and \copy:

        CSV - enable CSV mode (comma separated variable)
        QUOTE - specify quote character
        ESCAPE - specify escape character
        FORCE - force quoting of specified column
	LITERAL - suppress null comparison for columns

Doc changes included.  Regression updates coming from Andrew.

> 	o -Allow dump/load of CSV format

< * -Allow psql \du to show groups, and add \dg for groups
> * -Allow psql \du to show users, and add \dg for groups

are sought first as local FROM columns, then as local SELECT-list aliases,
and finally as outer FROM columns; the former behavior made outer FROM
columns take precedence over aliases.  This does not change spec
conformance because SQL99 allows only the first case anyway, and it seems
more useful and self-consistent.  Per gripe from Dennis Bjorklund 2004-04-05.

RETURN NEXT.

< * Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
> * Alvaro is Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>

< * Add the concept of dataspaces/tablespaces [tablespaces]
> * Add the concept of dataspaces/tablespaces [tablespaces] (Gavin)
167c167
< * Allow savepoints / nested transactions [transactions] (Bruce)
> * Allow savepoints / nested transactions [transactions] (Alvaro)
240c240
< 	o Allow Java server-side programming [java]
> 	o Allow Java server-side programming [java] (Dave)
496a497
> * Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>

It works on the principle of turning sockets into non-blocking, and then
emulate blocking behaviour on top of that, while allowing signals to
run. Signals are now implemented using an event instead of APCs, thus
getting rid of the issue of APCs not being compatible with "old style"
sockets functions.

It also moves the win32 specific code away from pqsignal.h/c into
port/win32, and also removes the "thread style workaround" of the APC
issue previously in place.

In order to make things work, a few things are also changed in pgstat.c:

1) There is now a separate pipe to the collector and the bufferer. This
is required because the pipe will otherwise only be signalled in one of
the processes when the postmaster goes down. The MS winsock code for
select() must have some kind of workaround for this behaviour, but I
have found no stable way of doing that. You really are not supposed to
use the same socket from more than one process (unless you use
WSADuplicateSocket(), in which case the docs specifically say that only
one will be flagged).

2) The check for "postmaster death" is moved into a separate select()
call after the main loop. The previous behaviour select():ed on the
postmaster pipe, while later explicitly saying "we do NOT check for
postmaster exit inside the loop".
The issue was that the code relies on the same select() call seeing both
the postmaster pipe *and* the pgstat pipe go away. This does not always
happen, and it appears that useing WSAEventSelect() makes it even more
common that it does not.
Since it's only called when the process exits, I don't think using a
separate select() call will have any significant impact on how the stats
collector works.

Magnus Hagander

Add pstdin/pstdout to read from psql's stdin/stdout.

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> > pronouns and formatting in the Russian FAQ.

Serguei Mokhov

calling proc_exit() directly.  This should make SIGTERM more reliable.

"millennium" date part implementation in postgresql, both in the code
and the documentation, so that it conforms to the official definition.
If you do not agree with the official definition, please send your
complaint to "pope@vatican.org". I'm not responsible for them;-)

With the previous version, the centuries and millenniums had a wrong
number and started the wrong year. Moreover century number 0, which does
not exist in reality, lasted 200 years. Also, millennium number 0 lasted
2000 years.

If you want postgresql to have it's own definition of "century" and
"millennium" that does not conform to the one of the society, just give
them another name. I would suggest "pgCENTURY" and "pgMILLENNIUM";-)

IMO, if someone may use the options, it means that postgresql is used for
historical data, so it make sense to have an historical definition. Also,
I just want to divide the year by 100 or 1000, I can do that quite easily.

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Fabien Coelho - coelho@cri.ensmp.fr

gborg.