text_time(), and text_timetz().  7.4-vintage bug found by Greg Stark.

< * Allow free-behind capability for large sequential scans, perhaps using
<   posix_fadvise()
> * Allow free-behind capability for large sequential scans to avoid
>   kernel cache spoiling

scan-resistant:

<
< * Allow free-behind capability for large sequential scans, perhaps using
<   posix_fadvise()
<
<   Posix_fadvise() can control both sequential/random file caching and
<   free-behind behavior, but it is unclear how the setting affects other
<   backends that also have the file open, and the feature is not supported
<   on all operating systems.

and most especially for UTF8. Remove unnecessary special cases for bytea
processing and single-byte charset ILIKE.  a ILIKE b is now processed as
lower(a) LIKE lower(b) in all cases. The code is now considerably simpler. All
comparisons are now performed byte-wise, and the text and pattern are also
advanced byte-wise where it is safe to do so - essentially where a wildcard is
not being matched.
Andrew Dunstan, from an original patch by ITAGAKI Takahiro, with ideas from
Tom Lane and Mark Mielke.

wrong data when dumping a bufferload that crosses a component-file boundary.
This probably has not been seen in the wild because (a) component files are
normally 1GB apiece and (b) non-block-aligned buffer usage is relatively
rare.  But it's fairly easy to reproduce a problem if one reduces RELSEG_SIZE
in a test build.  Kudos to Kurt Harriman for spotting the bug.

type. Also, add explicit casts between boolean and text/varchar. Both
of these changes are for conformance with SQL:2003.

Update the regression tests, bump the catversion.

will exit before failing because of conflicting DB usage.  Per discussion,
this seems a good idea to help mask the fact that backend exit takes nonzero
time.  Remove a couple of thereby-obsoleted sleeps in contrib and PL
regression test sequences.

        o Research self-referential UPDATEs that see inconsistent row versions
          in read-committed mode
<
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-06/msg00016.php

        o Research self-referential UPDATEs that see inconsistent row versions
          in read-committed mode


http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-05/msg00507.php

selecting power-of-2, rather than prime, numbers of buckets in hash joins.
If the hash functions are doing their jobs properly by making all hash bits
equally random, this is good enough, and it saves expensive integer division
and modulus operations.

delivering a well-randomized hash value.  I got religion on this after
observing that performance of multi-batch hash join degrades terribly if the
higher-order bits of hash values aren't random, as indeed was true for say
hashes of small integer values.  It's now expected and documented that hash
functions should use hash_any or some comparable method to ensure that all
bits of their output are about equally random.

initdb forced because this change invalidates existing hash indexes.  For the
same reason, this isn't back-patchable; the hash join performance problem
will get a band-aid fix in the back branches.

	http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-clear-code/?ca=dgr-FClnxw01linuxcodetips

EXPLAIN-only operation was a little too short; it skipped initializing the
node's result tuple type, which may be needed depending on what's above the
indexscan node.  Call ExecAssignResultTypeFromTL before exiting.  (For good
luck I moved up the ExecAssignScanProjectionInfo call as well, so that
everything except indexscan-specific initialization will still be done.)
Per example from Grant Finnemore.

index key columns always have the type expected by the index's associated
operators, ie, we add RelabelType nodes when dealing with binary-compatible
index opclasses.  This is needed to get varchar indexes to play nicely with
the new EquivalenceClass machinery, as per recent gripe from Josh Berkus that
CVS HEAD was failing to match a varchar index column to a constant restriction
in the query.

It seems likely that this change will allow removal of a lot of ugly ad-hoc
RelabelType-stripping that the planner has traditionally done while matching
expressions to other expressions, but I'll worry about that some other day.

to implement limited-size "ring" of buffers for VACUUM for GIN & GIST

fail when used in a deferred trigger.  Bug goes back to 8.0; no doubt the
reason it hadn't been noticed is that we've been discouraging use of
user-defined constraint triggers.  Per report from Frank van Vugt.

< * Consider allowing 64-bit integers to be passed by value on 64-bit
<   platforms
> * Consider allowing 64-bit integers and floats to be passed by value on
>   64-bit platforms
>
>   Also change 32-bit floats (float4) to be passed by value at the same
>   time.
>

buffers, rather than blowing out the whole shared-buffer arena.  Aside from
avoiding cache spoliation, this fixes the problem that VACUUM formerly tended
to cause a WAL flush for every page it modified, because we had it hacked to
use only a single buffer.  Those flushes will now occur only once per
ring-ful.  The exact ring size, and the threshold for seqscans to switch into
the ring usage pattern, remain under debate; but the infrastructure seems
done.  The key bit of infrastructure is a new optional BufferAccessStrategy
object that can be passed to ReadBuffer operations; this replaces the former
StrategyHintVacuum API.

This patch also changes the buffer usage-count methodology a bit: we now
advance usage_count when first pinning a buffer, rather than when last
unpinning it.  To preserve the behavior that a buffer's lifetime starts to
decrease when it's released, the clock sweep code is modified to not decrement
usage_count of pinned buffers.

Work not done in this commit: teach GiST and GIN indexes to use the vacuum
BufferAccessStrategy for vacuum-driven fetches.

Original patch by Simon, reworked by Heikki and again by Tom.

< * Consider allowing 64-bit integers to be passed by reference on 64-bit
> * Consider allowing 64-bit integers to be passed by value on 64-bit

>
> * Consider allowing 64-bit integers to be passed by reference on 64-bit
>   platforms

Les Hill

appropriate.

Guillaume Cottenceau

in a loop.

* Improve speed with indexes

  For large table adjustments during VACUUM FULL, it is faster to cluster
  or reindex rather than update the index.  Also, index updates can bloat
  the index.

Jim Nasby

directory.

Mark Cotner and David Fetter

David Fetter

"microsecond" and "millisecond" units were not considered valid input
by themselves, which caused inputs like "1 millisecond" to be rejected
erroneously.

Update the docs, add regression tests, and backport to 8.2 and 8.1

compared PortalContext with QueryContext, but the latter no longer exists.

necessary in 1997, when geqo_threshold did not exist, but it is no
longer needed.

< * Fix self-referential UPDATEs seeing inconsistent row versions in
> * Fix self-referential UPDATEs that see inconsistent row versions in

>
> * Fix self-referential UPDATEs seeing inconsistent row versions in
>   read-committed mode
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-05/msg00507.php

error messages when a single COPY line is too long for us to handle.  Per
example from Johann Spies.