Per performance gripe from nomao.com

Document return type of cast functions.

Also change documentation to prefer the term "binary coercible" in its
present sense instead of the previous term "binary compatible".

CopySnapshot, per Neil Conway.  Also add a comment about the assumption in
GetSnapshotData that the argument is statically allocated.

Also, fix some more typos in comments in snapmgr.c.

alphabetically.

wal_segment_size to make those configuration parameters available to clients,
in the same way that block_size was previously exposed.  Bernd Helmle, with
comments from Abhijit Menon-Sen and some further tweaking by me.

the current query level that aren't in fact output parameters of the current
initPlans.  (This means, for example, output parameters of regular subplans.)
To make this work correctly for output parameters coming from sibling
initplans requires rejiggering the API of SS_finalize_plan just a bit:
we need the siblings to be visible to it, rather than hidden as
SS_make_initplan_from_plan had been doing.  This is really part of my response
to bug #4290, but I concluded this part probably shouldn't be back-patched,
since all that it's doing is to make a debugging cross-check tighter.

bug #4290.  The fundamental bug is that masking extParam by outer_params,
as finalize_plan had been doing, caused us to lose the information that
an initPlan depended on the output of a sibling initPlan.  On reflection
the best thing to do seemed to be not to try to adjust outer_params for
this case but get rid of it entirely.  The only thing it was really doing
for us was to filter out param IDs associated with SubPlan nodes, and that
can be done (with greater accuracy) while processing individual SubPlan
nodes in finalize_primnode.  This approach was vindicated by the discovery
that the masking method was hiding a second bug: SS_finalize_plan failed to
remove extParam bits for initPlan output params that were referenced in the
main plan tree (it only got rid of those referenced by other initPlans).
It's not clear that this caused any real problems, given the limited use
of extParam by the executor, but it's certainly not what was intended.

I originally thought that there was also a problem with needing to include
indirect dependencies on external params in initPlans' param sets, but it
turns out that the executor handles this correctly so long as the depended-on
initPlan is earlier in the initPlans list than the one using its output.
That seems a bit of a fragile assumption, but it is true at the moment,
so I just documented it in some code comments rather than making what would
be rather invasive changes to remove the assumption.

Back-patch to 8.1.  Previous versions don't have the case of initPlans
referring to other initPlans' outputs, so while the existing logic is still
questionable for them, there are not any known bugs to be fixed.  So I'll
refrain from changing them for now.

1024 to improve performance when sending large elog messages.  Also add a
comment about why we use that number.

Since this represents an externally visible behavior change, and might
possibly result in portability issues, it seems best not to back-patch it.

log message at newlines cost O(N^2) for very long messages with few or no
newlines.  For messages in the megabyte range this became the dominant cost.
Per gripe from Achilleas Mantzios.

Patch all the way back, since this is a safe change with no portability
risks.  I am also thinking of increasing PG_SYSLOG_LIMIT, but that should
be done separately.

Patch by Simon Riggs, per bug report from Ferenc Felhoffer

        /* This is PGC_SIGHUP so all backends have the same value. */

results always contribute two groups, regardless of the expression contents.
This is very substantially more accurate than the regular heuristic for
certain boolean tests like "col IS NULL".  Per gripe from Sam Mason.

Back-patch to all supported releases, since the behavior of
estimate_num_groups() hasn't changed all that much since 7.4.

the timezone argument as a timezone abbreviation, and only try it as a full
timezone name if that fails.  The zic database has four zones (CET, EET, MET,
WET) that are full daylight-savings zones and yet have names that are the
same as their abbreviations for standard time, resulting in ambiguity.
In the timestamp input functions we resolve the ambiguity by preferring the
abbreviation, and AT TIME ZONE should work the same way.  (No functionality
is lost because the zic database also has other names for these zones, eg
Europe/Zurich.)  Per gripe from Jaromir Talir.

Backpatch to 8.1.  Older releases did not have the issue because AT TIME ZONE
only accepted abbreviations not zone names.  (Thus, this patch also arguably
fixes a compatibility botch introduced at 8.1: in ambiguous cases we now
behave the same as 8.0 did.)

variable that has units.  Per report from Stefan Kaltenbrunner.

Backport to 8.2.  I also backported my patch of 2007-06-21 that prevented
comparable overflows on the input side, since that now seems to have enough
field track record to be back-patched safely.  That patch included addition
of hints listing the available unit names, which I did not bother to strip
out of it --- this will make a little more work for the translators, but
they can copy the translation from 8.3, and anyway an untranslated hint
is better than no hint.

* Don't cut off the prefix. With this fix, it's again readable.
* Properly store it in the Global namespace as intended.

known to the SQL parser.  Dave Page

scripts, to allow running the test successfully with another database name.

pains to pass the ERROR message components locally, including
using the passed SQLSTATE. Also wrap the passed info in an
appropriate CONTEXT message. Addresses complaint by Henry
Combrinck. Joe Conway, with much good advice from Tom Lane.

Guillaume Lelarge, with some additional fixes by me.

fix by Kris Jurka.

which are available if LOCK_DEBUG is defined.

* Add database and transaction-level triggers

> * Fix TRUNCATE ... RESTART IDENTITY so its affect on sequences is rolled
>   back on transaction abort

output for CREATE FUNCTION. This makes it easier to read especially if the
function body is long.

Original idea and patch by Greg Sabino Mullane, though this is a stripped
down version of that.

of different types than the underlying column. The capability isn't yet
used for anything, but will be required by upcoming patch to analyze
tsvector columns.

Jan Urbanski

one for client-side, restoring the previous behaviour with different
sort order for the 'log' level. Also, remove redundant list of available
options, since the enum code will output it automatically.

timezone setting in the current year and for 100 years back, rather than
always examining years 1904-2004.  The original coding would have problems
distinguishing zones whose behavior diverged only after 2004; which is a
situation we will surely face sometime, if it's not out there already.

In passing, also prevent selection of the dummy "Factory" timezone, even
if that's exactly what the system is using.  Reporting time as GMT seems
better than that.

backend.  If so, send a LOG message to the postmaster log, and if the table
is beyond the vacuum-for-wraparound horizon, forcibly drop it.  Per recent
discussions.  Perhaps we ought to back-patch this, but it probably needs
to age a bit in HEAD first.

observation by David Fetter.

values as postgresql.conf.

> 	o Add "auto" expanded mode that outputs in expanded format if
> 	  "wrapped" mode can't wrap the output to the screen width
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00417.php
>

> 	o Add option to wrap column values at whitespace boundaries,
>           rather than chopping them at a fixed width.
> 	  Currently, "wrapped" format chops values into fixed
> 	  widths.  Perhaps the word wrapping could use the same
> 	  algorithm documented in the W3C specification.
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00404.php
> 	  http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#auto-table-layout