log time was incorrectly set, typically leading to dates in the past,
which would cause more cancellations in Hot Standby on a quiet server.

without them, related to previous commit. Report by Bruce Momjian.

Modify path separators for Win32.

Per ideas from Takahiro Itagaki

EDB must maintain their own patch set for this.

Should fix buildfarm failures.

where we started supporting MSVC builds.

Security: CVE-2010-1169

Security: CVE-2010-1169, CVE-2010-1170

"supplementary storage table".

that is a regular table or view owned by a superuser.  This prevents a
trojan horse attack whereby any unprivileged SQL user could create such a
table and insert code into it that would then get executed in other users'
sessions whenever they call pltcl functions.

Worse yet, because the code was automatically loaded into both the "normal"
and "safe" interpreters at first use, the attacker could execute unrestricted
Tcl code in the "normal" interpreter without there being any pltclu functions
anywhere, or indeed anyone else using pltcl at all: installing pltcl is
sufficient to open the hole.  Change the initialization logic so that the
"unknown" code is only loaded into an interpreter when the interpreter is
first really used.  (That doesn't add any additional security in this
particular context, but it seems a prudent change, and anyway the former
behavior violated the principle of least astonishment.)

Security: CVE-2010-1170

fundamentally insecure. Instead apply an opmask to the whole interpreter that
imposes restrictions on unsafe operations. These restrictions are much harder
to subvert than is Safe.pm, since there is no container to be broken out of.
Backported to release 7.4.

In releases 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1 this also includes the necessary backporting of
the two interpreters model for plperl and plperlu adopted in release 8.2.

In versions 8.0 and up, the use of Perl's POSIX module to undo its locale
mangling on Windows has become insecure with these changes, so it is
replaced by our own routine, which is also faster.

Nice side effects of the changes include that it is now possible to use perl's
"strict" pragma in a natural way in plperl, and that perl's $a and
$b variables now work as expected in sort routines, and that function
compilation is significantly faster.

Tim Bunce and Andrew Dunstan, with reviews from Alex Hunsaker and
Alexey Klyukin.

Security: CVE-2010-1169

* There is no chmod() on Windows.
* Must always use the 3-parameter version of open()
* There is no dynloader.h - but it also appears unnecessary on all platforms
* Don't include shlobj.h because it causes compile errors, and from what I can
  see it's not actually used. This may need to be added back for mingw
  and/or cygwin in the worst case.

PROGRAM, not just MODULE, in contrib.

mkinstalldirs used to handle no arguments, but mkdir doesn't.

Also remove the .SILENT setting, that was previously removed from
Makefile.global as well.

Thom Brown

so simply leads to data waiting in wal_buffers which then causes
later commits to potentially do emergency writes and for all forms
of replication to be potentially delayed without need or benefit.
Issue pointed out exactly by Fujii Masao, following bug report
by Robert Haas on a separate though related topic.

of requirements and documentation on LogStandbySnapshot(). Fixes
two minor bugs reported by Tom Lane that would lead to an incorrect
snapshot after transaction wraparound. Also fix two other problems
discovered that would give incorrect snapshots in certain cases.
ProcArrayApplyRecoveryInfo() substantially rewritten. Some minor
refactoring of xact_redo_apply() and ExpireTreeKnownAssignedTransactionIds().

(pg_upgrade_support).

7.4.29.

requests and discussions with Yeb Havinga and Kevin Grittner.

on the buildfarm.