it.

Per report from Tom Lane based on buildfarm evidence.

problem with DISTINCT, so might as well commit it.

>
> * Reduce locking requirements for creating a trigger
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00635.php
>

* Implement SQL:2003 window functions
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00380.php
>

need to deconstruct proargmodes for each pg_proc entry inspected by
FuncnameGetCandidates().  Fixes function lookup performance regression
caused by yesterday's variadic-functions patch.

In passing, make pg_proc.probin be NULL, rather than a dummy value '-',
in cases where it is not actually used for the particular type of function.
This should buy back some of the space cost of the extra column.

>
> 	o Add external tool to auto-tune some postgresql.conf parameters
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00000.php
>

so long as all the trailing arguments are of the same (non-array) type.
The function receives them as a single array argument (which is why they
have to all be the same type).

It might be useful to extend this facility to aggregates, but this patch
doesn't do that.

This patch imposes a noticeable slowdown on function lookup --- a follow-on
patch will fix that by adding a redundant column to pg_proc.

Pavel Stehule

Pavel Stehule

Euler Taveira de Oliveira.

>
> 	o Reduce PITR WAL file size by removing full page writes and
> 	  by removing trailing bytes to improve compression

>
> * Consider decreasing the I/O caused by updating tuple hint bits
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00847.php
>

> 	o -Have psql show current values for a sequence

Dickson S. Guedes

Report from Martin Saschek

psql.

> * Improve ability to modify views via ALTER TABLE
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00691.php

Gregory Stark

< * Add temporal versions of generate_series()
> * -Add temporal versions of generate_series()

* Consider allowing control of upper/lower case folding of unquoted
  identifiers

>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg00415.php

< 	o Fix server restart problem when the server was shutdown during
> 	o -Fix server restart problem when the server was shutdown during

macros patch :-(.  Results from both baiji and mastodon imply that MSVC
fails to perceive offsetof(PageHeaderData, pd_linp[0]) as a constant
expression in some contexts where offsetof(PageHeaderData, pd_linp) works
fine.  Sloth, thy name is Micro.

on the most common individual lexemes in place of the mostly-useless default
behavior of counting duplicate tsvectors.  Future work: create selectivity
estimation functions that actually do something with these stats.

(Some other things we ought to look at doing: using the Lossy Counting
algorithm in compute_minimal_stats, and using the element-counting idea for
stats on regular arrays.)

Jan Urbanski

thereby forestalling any problems with alignment of the data structure placed
there.  Since SizeOfPageHeaderData is maxalign'd anyway in 8.3 and HEAD, this
does not actually change anything right now, but it is foreseeable that the
header size will change again someday.  I had to fix a couple of places that
were assuming that the content offset is just SizeOfPageHeaderData rather than
MAXALIGN(SizeOfPageHeaderData).  Per discussion of Zdenek's page-macros patch.

SizeOfPageHeaderData instead of sizeof(PageHeaderData) in places where that
makes the code clearer, and avoid casting between Page and PageHeader where
possible.  Zdenek Kotala, with some additional cleanup by Heikki Linnakangas.

I did not apply the parts of the proposed patch that would have resulted in
slightly changing the on-disk format of hash indexes; it seems to me that's
not a win as long as there's any chance of having in-place upgrade for 8.4.

it's just too dang expensive.  Per recent discussion, but I just got my
nose rubbed in it again while doing some performance checking.

warnings.  Clean up various unneeded cruft that was left behind after
creating those routines.  Introduce some convenience functions str_tolower_z
etc to eliminate tedious and error-prone double arguments in formatting.c.
(Currently there seems no need to export the latter, but maybe reconsider
this later.)

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.