The user documentation was vague and not entirely accurate about how
we treat domain inputs for ambiguous operators/functions.  Clarify
that, and add an example and some commentary.  Per a recent question
from Adam Mackler.

It's acted like this ever since we added domains, so back-patch
to all supported branches.

There's actually no need for any special case for unknown-type literals,
since we only need to push the value through its output function and
unknownout() works fine.  The code that was here was completely bizarre
anyway, and would fail outright in cases that should work, not to mention
suffering from some copy-and-paste bugs.

Fix an obvious typo in json_build_object()'s complaint about invalid
number of arguments, and make the errhint a bit more sensible too.

Per discussion about how to word the improved hint, change the few places
in the documentation that refer to JSON object field names as "names" to
say "keys" instead, since that's what we've said in the vast majority of
places in the docs.  Arguably "name" is more correct, since that's the
terminology used in RFC 7159; but we're stuck with "key" in view of the
naming of json_object_keys() so let's at least be self-consistent.

I adjusted a few code comments to match this as well, and failed to
resist the temptation to clean up some odd whitespace choices in the
same area, as well as a useless duplicate PG_ARGISNULL() check.  There's
still quite a bit of code that uses the phrase "field name" in non-user-
visible ways, so I left those usages alone.

Such cases are disallowed by the SQL spec, and even if we wanted to allow
them, the semantics seem ambiguous: how should the FK columns be matched up
with the columns of a unique index?  (The matching could be significant in
the presence of opclasses with different notions of equality, so this issue
isn't just academic.)  However, our code did not previously reject such
cases, but instead would either fail to match to any unique index, or
generate a bizarre opclass-lookup error because of sloppy thinking in the
index-matching code.

David Rowley

This allows us to specify the maximum time to issue fsync to ensure
the received WAL file is safely flushed to disk. Without this,
pg_receivexlog always flushes WAL file only when it's closed and
which can cause WAL data to be lost at the event of a crash.

Furuya Osamu, heavily modified by me.

s/XIDs XIDs/XIDs/ in one place in maintenance.sgml.

Guillaume Lelarge

Previously, TOAST tables only required in the new cluster could cause
oid conflicts if they were auto-numbered and a later conflicting oid had
to be assigned.

Backpatch through 9.3

Based on the old comment, it took me a while to figure out what the
problem was. The importnat detail is that SSL_read() can return WANT_READ
even though some raw data was received from the socket.

Manuel Kniep

This could be useful for datatypes like text, where we might want
to optimize for some collations but not others.  However, this patch
doesn't introduce any new sortsupport functions that work this way;
it merely revises the code so that future patches may do so.

Patch by me.  Review by Peter Geoghegan.

Commit 0ef99bdc broke this.

Jeff Janes

Previously the source codes for processing the received data and handling
the end of stream were included in pg_receivexlog main loop. This commit
splits out them as separate functions. This is useful for improving the
readability of main loop code and making the future pg_receivexlog-related
patch simpler.

When more than one setting entries of same parameter exist in the
configuration file, PostgreSQL uses only entry appearing last in
configuration file scan. Since the other entries are not used,
ParseConfigFp() doesn't need to process them, but previously it did
that. This problematic behavior caused the configuration file scan
to detect invalid settings of unused entries (e.g., existence of
multiple entries of PGC_POSTMASTER parameter) and log the messages
complaining about them.

This commit changes the configuration file scan so that it processes
only last entry of each parameter.

Note that when multiple entries of same parameter exist both in
postgresql.conf and postgresql.auto.conf, unused entries in
postgresql.conf are still processed only at postmaster startup.

The problem has existed since old version, but a user is more likely
to encounter it since 9.4 where ALTER SYSTEM command was introduced.
So back-patch to 9.4.

Amit Kapila, slightly modified by me. Per report from Christoph Berg.

These messages are new in 9.4, which hasn't been released yet, so
back-patch to REL9_4_STABLE.

Daniele Varrazzo

The user specified to the upgrade was effectively the install user, but
that was not clearly stated in the comments, documentation, or error
messages.

autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age was added as a pg_ctl start
parameter in 9.3.X to prevent autovacuum from running.  However, only
some 9.3.X releases have autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age as it was
added in a minor PG 9.3 release.  It also isn't needed because -b turns
off autovacuum in 9.1+.

Without this fix, trying to upgrade from an early 9.3 release to 9.4
would fail.

Report by EDB

Backpatch through 9.3

This should fix the Windows build, broken by commit ed802e7d.

Back-patch to 9.3.

In 9.2, pg_receivexlog with verbose option has emitted the messages
at the end of each WAL file. But the commit 0b632913 suppressed such
messages by mistake. This commit fixes the bug so that pg_receivexlog
--verbose outputs such messages again.

Back-patch to 9.3 where the bug was added.

log_newpage is used by many indexams, in addition to heap, but for
historical reasons it's always been part of the heapam rmgr. Starting with
9.3, we have another WAL record type for logging an image of a page,
XLOG_FPI. Simplify things by moving log_newpage and log_newpage_buffer to
xlog.c, and switch to using the XLOG_FPI record type.

Bump the WAL version number because the code to replay the old HEAP_NEWPAGE
records is removed.

When autovacuum is nominally off, we will still launch autovac workers
to vacuum tables that are at risk of XID wraparound.  But after we'd done
that, an autovac worker would proceed to autovacuum every table in the
targeted database, if they meet the usual thresholds for autovacuuming.
This is at best pretty unexpected; at worst it delays response to the
wraparound threat.  Fix it so that if autovacuum is nominally off, we
*only* do forced vacuums and not any other work.

Per gripe from Andrey Zhidenkov.  This has been like this all along,
so back-patch to all supported branches.

Mitsumasa KONDO and Fabien COELHO, with further wordsmithing by me.

InitProcess() relies on IsBackgroundWorker to decide whether the PGPROC
for a new backend should be taken from ProcGlobal's freeProcs or from
bgworkerFreeProcs.  In EXEC_BACKEND builds, InitProcess() is called
sooner than in non-EXEC_BACKEND builds, and IsBackgroundWorker wasn't
getting initialized soon enough.

Report by Noah Misch.  Diagnosis and fix by me.

- Capitalize titles consistently.
- Fix some grammar.
- Group "Obtaining Information About an Error" under "Trapping Errors",
  but make "Obtaining the Call Stack Context Information" its own
  section, since it's not about errors.

Commit 0ac5ad51 removed an optimization in multixact.c that skipped
fetching members of MultiXactId that were older than our
OldestVisibleMXactId value.  The reason this was removed is that it is
possible for multixacts that contain updates to be older than that
value.  However, if the caller is certain that the multi does not
contain an update (because the infomask bits say so), it can pass this
info down to GetMultiXactIdMembers, enabling it to use the old
optimization.

Pointed out by Andres Freund in 20131121200517.GM7240@alap2.anarazel.de

Testing for abortedness of a multixact member that's being frozen is
unnecessary: we only need to know whether the transaction is still in
progress or committed to determine whether it must be kept or not.  This
let us simplify the code a bit and avoid a useless TransactionIdDidAbort
test.

Suggested by Andres Freund awhile back.

Pointed out by Tom Lane. Backpatch to 9.4, the code was structured
differently in earlier branches and didn't have this mistake.

There were several oversights in recovery code where COMMIT/ABORT PREPARED
records were ignored:

* pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp() (wasn't updated for 2PC commits)
* recovery_min_apply_delay (2PC commits were applied immediately)
* recovery_target_xid (recovery would not stop if the XID used 2PC)

The first of those was reported by Sergiy Zuban in bug #11032, analyzed by
Tom Lane and Andres Freund. The bug was always there, but was masked before
commit d19bd29f, because COMMIT PREPARED
always created an extra regular transaction that was WAL-logged.

Backpatch to all supported versions (older versions didn't have all the
features and therefore didn't have all of the above bugs).

Previously the duplicated paragraphs were used next to each other
in the document to demonstrate that the changes in the stream
were not consumed by pg_logical_slot_peek_changes function.
But some users misunderstood that the duplication of the same
paragraph was just typo. So this commit rewords the sentence in
the latter paragraph for less confusing.

Christoph Moench-Tegeder

Since commit 2d001904, fork numbers are
defined in relpath.h not relfilenode.h.

Fabrízio de Royes Mello

The documentation of ALTER TABLESPACE ... MOVE was added without any
markup, not even paragraph breaks.  Fix that, and clarify the text in a
few places.

findDependencyLoops() was not bright about cases where there are multiple
dependency paths between the same two dumpable objects.  In most scenarios
this did not hurt us too badly; but since the introduction of section
boundary pseudo-objects in commit a1ef01fe,
it was possible for this code to take unreasonable amounts of time (tens
of seconds on a database with a couple thousand objects), as reported in
bug #11033 from Joe Van Dyk.  Joe's particular problem scenario involved
"pg_dump -a" mode with long chains of foreign key constraints, but I think
that similar problems could arise with other situations as long as there
were enough objects.  To fix, add a flag array that lets us notice when we
arrive at the same object again while searching from a given start object.
This simple change seems to be enough to eliminate the performance problem.

Back-patch to 9.1, like the patch that introduced section boundary objects.

This return code is possible wherever we pass bAlertable = TRUE; it
arises when Windows caused the current thread to run an "I/O completion
routine" or an "asynchronous procedure call".  PostgreSQL does not
provoke either of those Windows facilities, hence this bug remaining
largely unnoticed, but other local code might do so.  Due to a shortage
of complaints, no back-patch for now.

Per report from Shiv Shivaraju Gowda, this bug can cause
PGSemaphoreLock() to PANIC.  The bug can also cause select() to report
timeout expiration too early, which might confuse pgstat_init() and
CheckRADIUSAuth().

This restores the style of keeping configure.in free of AC_DEFUN.  Per
gripe from Tom Lane.

shm_mq_send_bytes didn't invariably initialize *bytes_written before
returning, which would cause shm_mq_send to read from uninitialized
memory and add the value it found there to mqh->mqh_partial_bytes.
This could cause the next attempt to send a message via the queue to
fail an assertion (if the queue was detached) or copy data from a
garbage pointer value into the queue (if non-blocking mode was in use).

Nothing in the checkpointer calls InitXLOGAccess(), so WALInsertLocks
never got initialized there.  Without EXEC_BACKEND, it works anyway
because the correct value is inherited from the postmaster, but
with EXEC_BACKEND we've got a problem.  The problem appears to have
been introduced by commit 68a2e52b.

To fix, move the relevant initialization steps from InitXLOGAccess()
to XLOGShmemInit(), making this more parallel to what we do
elsewhere.

Amit Kapila