1. Solve the problem of not having TOAST references hiding inside composite
values by establishing the rule that toasting only goes one level deep:
a tuple can contain toasted fields, but a composite-type datum that is
to be inserted into a tuple cannot.  Enforcing this in heap_formtuple
is relatively cheap and it avoids a large increase in the cost of running
the tuptoaster during final storage of a row.
2. Fix some interesting problems in expansion of inherited queries that
reference whole-row variables.  We never really did this correctly before,
but it's now relatively painless to solve by expanding the parent's
whole-row Var into a RowExpr() selecting the proper columns from the
child.
If you dike out the preventive check in CheckAttributeType(),
composite-type columns now seem to actually work.  However, we surely
cannot ship them like this --- without I/O for composite types, you
can't get pg_dump to dump tables containing them.  So a little more
work still to do.

loop over the fields instead of a loop around heap_getattr.  This is
considerably faster (O(N) instead of O(N^2)) when there are nulls or
varlena fields, since those prevent use of attcacheoff.  Replace loops
over heap_getattr with heap_deformtuple in situations where all or most
of the fields have to be fetched, such as printtup and tuptoaster.
Profiling done more than a year ago shows that this should be a nice
win for situations involving many-column tables.

ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY is supported by the makefile (but not by the
sources, which need some rework)

Andreas Pflug

change an old -not-working piece of code.

reorganization processing, and it is clearer without the dash anyway.

when someone attempts to create a column of a composite datatype.  For
now, just make sure we produce a reasonable error at the 'right place'.
Not sure if this will be made to work before 7.5, but make it act
reasonably in case nothing more gets done.

with using a trigger's NEW or OLD record as a whole-row variable in an
expression.  Fixes several long-standing complaints.

into SQL expressions.  At present this only works usefully for variables
of named rowtypes, not RECORD variables, since the SQL parser can't infer
anything about datatypes from a RECORD Param.  Still, it's a step forward.

scalar and composite (rowtype) cases a little better.  This commit is
just a code-beautification operation and shouldn't make any real
difference in behavior, but it's an important preliminary step for
trying to improve plgsql's handling of rowtypes.

with typeTypType().

Stephen Frost.  Also tighten date range check in timestamp2tm.

- Add aligment for interval data types
- Avoid floating point overflow in penalty functions
Janko Richter <jankorichter@yahoo.de> and teodor

place of time_t, as per prior discussion.  The behavior does not change
on machines without a 64-bit-int type, but on machines with one, which
is most, we are rid of the bizarre boundary behavior at the edges of
the 32-bit-time_t range (1901 and 2038).  The system will now treat
times over the full supported timestamp range as being in your local
time zone.  It may seem a little bizarre to consider that times in
4000 BC are PST or EST, but this is surely at least as reasonable as
propagating Gregorian calendar rules back that far.

I did not modify the format of the zic timezone database files, which
means that for the moment the system will not know about daylight-savings
periods outside the range 1901-2038.  Given the way the files are set up,
it's not a simple decision like 'widen to 64 bits'; we have to actually
think about the range of years that need to be supported.  We should
probably inquire what the plans of the upstream zic people are before
making any decisions of our own.

. only use the -W flag on pwd for $pkglibdir. All the other paths need
to be seen as MSys type paths, whereas $pkglibdir needs to be expressed
as a genuine windows path.
. run single tests in the background and explicitly wait for them -
solves the problem of the MSys shell not waiting properly for the copy
test to finish.
. use pg_ctl to shut down the test postmaster - no more use of ad hoc
kill programs or the task manager.

Andrew Dunstan

be interpreted just the other way round in initialize_SSL.

Andreas Pflug

Andreas Pflug

environment variable processing to libpq.

The patch also adds code to our client apps so we set the environment
variable directly based on our binary location, unless it is already
set. This will allow our applications to emit proper locale messages
that are generated in libpq.

Specifically, point out that intersecting points in a path will yield
(most likely), unexpected results.  Visually these are identical paths,
but mathematically they're not the same.  Ex:

  area |                                           plan
------
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------
    -0 | ((0,0),(0,1),(2,1),(2,2),(1,2),(1,0),(0,0))
     2 | ((0,0),(0,1),(1,1),(1,2),(2,2),(2,1),(1,1),(1,0),(0,0))

The current algorithm for area(PATH) is very quick, but only handles
non-intersecting paths.  I'm going to work on two other functions for
the PATH data type that determines if a PATH is intersecting or not,
and a function that returns the area() for an intersecting PATH.  The
intersecting area() function will be considerably slower (I think it's
going to be O(n!) or worse instead of the current O(n), but that comes
with the territory).

Sean Chittenden

(cancel and terminate) signals to other backends.   They permit only INT
and TERM, and permits sending only to postgresql backends.

Magnus Hagander

Has docs + regression test.

Christopher Kings-Lynne

locking conflict against concurrent CHECKPOINT that was discussed a few
weeks ago.  Also, if not using WAL archiving (which is always true ATM
but won't be if PITR makes it into this release), there's no need to
WAL-log the index build process; it's sufficient to force-fsync the
completed index before commit.  This seems to gain about a factor of 2
in my tests, which is consistent with writing half as much data.  I did
not try it with WAL on a separate drive though --- probably the gain would
be a lot less in that scenario.

of bug report #1150.  Also, arrange that the object owner's irrevocable
grant-option permissions are handled implicitly by the system rather than
being listed in the ACL as self-granted rights (which was wrong anyway).
I did not take the further step of showing these permissions in an
explicit 'granted by _SYSTEM' ACL entry, as that seemed more likely to
bollix up existing clients than to do anything really useful.  It's still
a possible future direction, though.

being a plain List.

Add locale to pg_ctl.c.

temp tables, and avoid WAL-logging truncations of temp tables.  Do issue
fsync on truncated files (not sure this is necessary but it seems like
a good idea).

rather than an error code, and does elog(ERROR) not elog(WARNING)
when it detects a problem.  All callers were simply elog(ERROR)'ing on
failure return anyway, and I find it hard to envision a caller that would
not, so we may as well simplify the callers and produce the more useful
error message directly.