This was changed in PostgreSQL 9.2, but somehow this comment never
got updated.

The error message when we couldn't determine the encoding from a locale
said to report a bug about that.  That might have been appropriate when
this code was first added, but by now this works pretty solidly and any
encodings we don't recognize we probably just don't support.  We still
print the warning, but no longer invite the bug report.

This causes the supplied function name to appear in any error message,
making the error message friendlier and relieving us from having to
provide our own in some cases.

It makes it readable again and makes merges more manageable.

This bug exists as far back as 9.0, when Hot Standby was introduced,
so back-patch to all supported branches.

Report and patch by Takayuki Tsunakawa, reviewed by Michael Paquier
and Kuntal Ghosh.

If a restartpoint flushed no dirty buffers, it could fail to update
the minimum recovery point, leading to a minimum recovery point prior
to the starting REDO location.  perform_base_backup() would interpret
that as meaning that no WAL files at all needed to be included in the
backup, failing an internal sanity check.  To fix, have restartpoints
always update the minimum recovery point to just after the checkpoint
record itself, so that the file (or files) containing the checkpoint
record will always be included in the backup.

Code by Amit Kapila, per a design suggestion by me, with some
additional work on the code comment by me.  Test case by Michael
Paquier.  Report by Kyotaro Horiguchi.

per cpluspluscheck

A few comments were misaligned.

The code to change the deferrability properties of a foreign-key constraint
updated all the associated triggers to match; but a moment's examination of
the code that creates those triggers in the first place shows that only
some of them should track the constraint's deferrability properties.  This
leads to odd failures in subsequent exercise of the foreign key, as the
triggers are fired at the wrong times.  Fix that, and add a regression test
comparing the trigger properties produced by ALTER CONSTRAINT with those
you get by creating the constraint as-intended to begin with.

Per report from James Parks.  Back-patch to 9.4 where this ALTER
functionality was introduced.

Report: <CAJ3Xv+jzJ8iNNUcp4RKW8b6Qp1xVAxHwSXVpjBNygjKxcVuE9w@mail.gmail.com>

I broke this in commit f3094920.  Apparently it's dead code anyway,
at least as far as our buildfarm is concerned (and the upstream IANA
code doesn't worry at all about symlink() not being present).
But as long as the rest of our code is willing to guard against not
having symlink(), this should too.  Noted while investigating a
tangentially-related complaint from Sandeep Thakkar.

Back-patch to keep branches in sync.

Clarify documentation about inheritance of check constraints, in
particular mentioning the NO INHERIT option, which didn't exist when
this text was written.

Document that in an inherited query, the applicable row security policies
are those of the explicitly-named table, not its children.  This is the
intended behavior (per off-list discussion with Stephen Frost), and there
are regression tests for it, but it wasn't documented anywhere user-facing
as far as I could find.

Do a bit of wordsmithing on the description of inherited access-privilege
checks.

Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was added.

Introduced in commit 7012b132.

Kyotaro Horiguchi

Turns out that the output format of Python Decimal isn't totally platform-
independent either. There are other tests for multi-dimensional arrays,
so rather than try to fix this test case, just remove it.

Per buildfarm member prairiedog.

Instead of treating all python sequence types as array dimensions, except
for tuples and various kinds of strings, only treat Python lists as
dimensions. The PyBytes_Check() function used previously is only available
on Python 2.6 and newer, and it was a bit fiddly anyway. The list of
exceptions would require adjustment if Python got a new kind of a sequence
similar to bytes/unicodes/strings, so only checking for Lists seems more
future-proof. The documentation only mentioned using Lists, so this is
closer to what was documented, anyway.

This should fix the buildfarm failures on systems building with Python 2.5,
although I don't have Python 2.5 installed myself to test with.

The number of decimals printed for floats varied in this test case, as
noted by several buildfarm members. There's nothing special about floats
and arrays in the code being tested, so replace the floats with numerics to
make the output platform-independent.

Per buildfarm.

Vinayak Pokale

Daniel Gustafsson

That used to be accepted, so let's try to give a hint to users on why
their PL/python functions no longer work.

Reviewed by Pavel Stehule.

Discussion: <CAH38_tmbqwaUyKs9yagyRra=SMaT45FPBxk1pmTYcM0TyXGG7Q@mail.gmail.com>

Multi-dimensional arrays can now be used as arguments to a PL/python function
(used to throw an error), and they can be returned as nested Python lists.

This makes a backwards-incompatible change to the handling of composite
types in arrays. Previously, you could return an array of composite types
as "[[col1, col2], [col1, col2]]", but now that is interpreted as a two-
dimensional array. Composite types in arrays must now be returned as
Python tuples, not lists, to resolve the ambiguity. I.e. "[(col1, col2),
(col1, col2)]".

To avoid breaking backwards-compatibility, when not necessary, () is still
accepted for arrays at the top-level, but it is always treated as a
single-dimensional array. Likewise, [] is still accepted for composite types,
when they are not in an array. Update the documentation to recommend using []
for arrays, and () for composite types, with a mention that those other things
are also accepted in some contexts.

This needs to be mentioned in the release notes.

Alexey Grishchenko, Dave Cramer and me. Reviewed by Pavel Stehule.

Discussion: <CAH38_tmbqwaUyKs9yagyRra=SMaT45FPBxk1pmTYcM0TyXGG7Q@mail.gmail.com>

The ArchiveHandle structure contained the archive format version number
twice, once as a single field and once split into components.  Simplify
that by just keeping the single field and adding some macros to extract
the components.  Introduce some macros for composing version numbers, to
eliminate the repeated use of magic formulas.  Drop the unused trailing
zero byte from the run-time composite version representation.

reviewed by Tom Lane

Not strictly necessary since we quite after, but could become important
in the future if we do restarts etc.

Michael Paquier with nitpicking from me

Michael Paquier

Previously we only mentioned SIGHUP and 'pg_ctl reload' in
postgresql.conf and pg_hba.conf.

A query that only aggregates one row isn't a great argument for pushdown,
and buildfarm member brolga decides against it.  Adjust the query a bit
in the hopes of getting remote aggregation to win consistently.

Jeevan Chalke, per suggestion from Tom Lane

Noted by Alexander Korotkov

An oversight in setting the boundaries of known commit timestamps during
startup caused old commit timestamps to become inaccessible after a
server restart.

Author and reporter: Julien Rouhaud
Review, test code: Craig Ringer

INSERT ... ON CONFLICT (specifically ExecCheckHeapTupleVisible) contains
another example of this unsafe coding practice.  It is much harder to get
a failure out of it than the case fixed in commit 6292c233, because in
most scenarios any hint bits that could be set would have already been set
earlier in the command.  However, Konstantin Knizhnik reported a failure
with a custom transaction manager, and it's clearly possible to get a
failure via a race condition in async-commit mode.

For lack of a reproducible example, no regression test case in this
commit.

I did some testing with Asserts added to tqual.c's functions, and can say
that running "make check-world" exposed these two bugs and no others.
The Asserts are messy enough that I've not added them to the code for now.

Report: <57EE93C8.8080504@postgrespro.ru>
Related-Discussion: <CAO3NbwOycQjt2Oqy2VW-eLTq2M5uGMyHnGm=RNga4mjqcYD7gQ@mail.gmail.com>

A transaction that conflicts against itself, for example
	INSERT INTO t(pk) VALUES (1),(1) ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;
should behave the same regardless of isolation level.  It certainly
shouldn't throw a serialization error, as retrying will not help.
We got this wrong due to the ON CONFLICT logic not considering the case,
as reported by Jason Dusek.

Core of this patch is by Peter Geoghegan (based on an earlier patch by
Thomas Munro), though I didn't take his proposed code refactoring for fear
that it might have unexpected side-effects.  Test cases by Thomas Munro
and myself.

Report: <CAO3NbwOycQjt2Oqy2VW-eLTq2M5uGMyHnGm=RNga4mjqcYD7gQ@mail.gmail.com>
Related-Discussion: <57EE93C8.8080504@postgrespro.ru>

Despite the argumentation I wrote in commit 7a2fe85b, it's unsafe to do
this, because in corner cases it's possible for HeapTupleSatisfiesSelf
to try to set hint bits on the target tuple; and at least since 8.2 we
have required the buffer content lock to be held while setting hint bits.

The added regression test exercises one such corner case.  Unpatched, it
causes an assertion failure in assert-enabled builds, or otherwise would
cause a hint bit change in a buffer we don't hold lock on, which given
the right race condition could result in checksum failures or other data
consistency problems.  The odds of a problem in the field are probably
pretty small, but nonetheless back-patch to all supported branches.

Report: <19391.1477244876@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Using the name fsync clashed with the #define we have on Windows that
redefines it to _commit. Naming it sync should remove that conflict.

Per all the Windows buildfarm members

Per numerous buildfarm manuals

C99-specific feature, and wasn't intentional in the first place.

Per buildfarm member mylodon

This will write the received transaction log into a file called
pg_wal.tar(.gz) next to the other tarfiles instead of writing it to
base.tar. When using fetch mode, the transaction log is still written to
base.tar like before, and when used against a pre-10 server, the file
is named pg_xlog.tar.

To do this, implement a new concept of a "walmethod", which is
responsible for writing the WAL. Two implementations exist, one that
writes to a plain directory (which is also used by pg_receivexlog) and
one that writes to a tar file with optional compression.

Reviewed by Michael Paquier

Show how to get the system's huge page size, rather than misleadingly
referring to PAGE_SIZE (which is usually understood to be the regular
page size).  Show how to confirm whether huge pages have been allocated.
Minor wordsmithing.  Back-patch to 9.4 where this section appeared.

As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.