against the latest shapshot. It also includes the replacement of kill()
with pqkill() and sigsetmask() with pqsigsetmask().

Passes all tests fine on my linux machine once applied. Still doesn't
link completely on Win32 - there are a few things still required. But
much closer than before.

At Bruce's request, I'm goint to write up a README file about the method
of signals delivery chosen and why the others were rejected (basically a
summary of the mailinglist discussions). I'll finish that up once/if the
patch is accepted.


Magnus Hagander

PostmasterPid variable, which gets set (early) in PostmasterMain
getppid would not be the postmaster?

[fork/exec] Implements processCancelRequest by keeping an array of

pid/cancel_key structs in shared mem

[fork/exec] Moves AttachSharedMemoryAndSemaphores call for backends into
SubPostmasterMain

[win32] Implements reaper/waitpid by keeping an arrays of children
pids,handles in postmaster local mem
      - this item is largely untested, for reasons which should be
obvious, but appears sound

[win32/all] Added extern for pgpipe in Win32 case, and changed the second
pipe call (which seems to have been missed earlier) to pgpipe

[win32] #define'd ftruncate to chsize in the Win32 case

[win32] PG_USLEEP for Win32 has a misplaced paren. Fixed.

[win32] DLLIMPORT handling for MingW case


Claudio Natoli

apply.

Alvaro Herrera

> * -Add checks for fclose() failure (Tom)

> * -Add checks for fclose() failure (Tom)

cases involving writes.  Per recent discussion about the possibility
of close-time failures on some filesystems.  There is a TODO item for
this, too.

to handle memory management for char pointers returned by libpq functions.
Original patch by Gavin Sherry, some tweaking and consistency improvements
by Neil Conway.

complete ExtendCLOG() before advancing nextXid, so that if that routine
fails, the next incoming transaction will try it again.  Per trouble
report from Christopher Kings-Lynne.

> * Dump large object comments in custom dump format

Sherry, editorializing by Neil Conway.

> * Joe is Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

pg_malloc, to avoid linker failures on same platforms.

and PL/pgSQL only prints queries on first function call.

per Dennis Bjorklund.  I did not force initdb for this, but
you'd need to do one to get the improved view.

way to fix this is probably implementing safe memory handling functions
once in a static lib and then using that in the various client apps,
but for the moment I've just reverted the change to un-break the tree.

done by the background writer between writing dirty blocks and
napping.

    none (default)   no action
	sync             bgwriter calls smgrsync() causing a sync(2)

A global sync() is only good on dedicated database servers, so
more flush methods should be added in the future.

Jan

little more sane. Some parts of the code was using a static function
xmalloc() that did safe memory allocation (where "safe" means "bail
out on OOM"), but most of it was just invoking calloc() or malloc()
directly. Now almost everything invokes xmalloc() or xcalloc().

IN (sub-SELECT) constructs.  We must force a clauseless join of the
sub-select member relations, but it wasn't happening because the code
thought it would be able to use the join clause arising from the IN.

that it's good to join where there are join clauses rather than where there
are not.  Also enable it to generate bushy plans at need, so that it doesn't
fail in the presence of multiple IN clauses containing sub-joins.  These
changes appear to improve the behavior enough that we can substantially reduce
the default pool size and generations count, thereby decreasing the runtime,
and yet get as good or better plans as we were getting in 7.4.  Consequently,
adjust the default GEQO parameters.  I also modified the way geqo_effort is
used so that it affects both population size and number of generations;
it's now useful as a single control to adjust the GEQO runtime-vs-plan-quality
tradeoff.  Bump geqo_threshold to 12, since even with these changes GEQO
seems to be slower than the regular planner at 11 relations.

> * Improve CREATE SCHEMA regression test

> * Allow column-level privileges

patch: a 3-value enum was mistakenly assigned directly to a 'bool'
in transformCreateStmt(). Along the way, change makeObjectName()
to be static, as it isn't used outside analyze.c

7.1, because the path interpretation it embodies has been wrong since 7.1.

Per report from Mattias Kregert.

when scanning a table that we need all the columns from.  In case of
SELECT INTO, we have to check that the hasoids flag matches the desired
output type, too.  Per report from Mike Mascari.