Extract the "while creating return value" and "while modifying trigger
row" parts of some error messages into another layer of error context.
This will simplify the upcoming patch to improve data type support, but
it can stand on its own.

Switch the implementation of the plan and result types to generic attribute
management, as described at <http://docs.python.org/extending/newtypes.html>.
This modernizes and simplifies the code a bit and prepares for Python 3.1,
where the old way doesn't work anymore.

This changes a bunch of incidentially used constructs in the PL/Python
regression tests to equivalent constructs in cases where Python 3 no longer
supports the old syntax.  Support for older Python versions is unchanged.

Instead of sending stdout/stderr to /dev/null after forking away from the
terminal, send them to postmaster.log within the data directory.  Since
this opens the door to indefinite logfile bloat, recommend even more
strongly that log output be redirected when using silent_mode.

Move the postmaster's initial calls of load_hba() and load_ident() down
to after we have started the log collector, if we are going to.  This
is so that errors reported by them will appear in the "usual" place.

Reclassify silent_mode as a LOGGING_WHERE, not LOGGING_WHEN, parameter,
since it's got absolutely nothing to do with the latter category.

In passing, fix some obsolete references to -S ... this option hasn't
had that switch letter for a long time.

Back-patch to 8.4, since as of 8.4 load_hba() and load_ident() are more
picky (and thus more likely to fail) than they used to be.  This entire
change was driven by a complaint about those errors disappearing into
the bit bucket.

for a dead_end child, because we didn't AssignPostmasterChildSlot.

This causes problems when the system load is high, per report from Zdenek
Kotala in <1250860954.1239.114.camel@localhost>; instead of calling kill
directly, have the signal handler set a flag which is checked in ServerLoop.
This way, the handler can return before being called again by a subsequent
signal sent from the autovacuum launcher.  Also, increase the sleep in the
launcher in this failure path to 1 second.

Backpatch to 8.3, which is when the signalling between autovacuum
launcher/postmaster was introduced.

Also, add a couple of ReleasePostmasterChildSlot calls in error paths; this
part backpatched to 8.4 which is when the child slot stuff was introduced.

#include the version of history.h that is in the same directory as the
readline.h we are using.  This avoids problems in some scenarios where both
readline and editline are installed.  Report and patch by Zdenek Kotala.

Per Grzegorz Jaskiewicz report from LLVM static checker

renders useless one of the few test methodologies we have for WAL replay,
which is to intentionally crash the system just after completing the
regression tests and see if it recovers to the expected database state.
The reason is that DROP TABLESPACE forces a checkpoint, so there's essentially
no WAL available for replay after the tests complete.

"all tuples visible" flag in heap page headers.  The flag update *must*
be applied before calling XLogInsert, but heap_update and the tuple
moving routines in VACUUM FULL were ignoring this rule.  A crash and
replay could therefore leave the flag incorrectly set, causing rows
to appear visible in seqscans when they should not be.  This might explain
recent reports of data corruption from Jeff Ross and others.

In passing, do a bit of editorialization on comments in visibilitymap.c.

or previously truncated in the current (sub)transaction.  This is safe since
if the (sub)transaction later rolls back, we'd just discard the rel's current
physical file anyway.  This avoids unreasonable growth in the number of
transient files when a relation is repeatedly truncated.  Per a performance
gripe a couple weeks ago from Todd Cook.

values before they get passed to the index access method.  This avoids
repeated detoastings that will otherwise ensue as the comparison value
is examined by various index support functions.  We have seen a couple of
reports of cases where repeated detoastings result in an order-of-magnitude
slowdown, so it seems worth adding a bit of extra logic to prevent this.

I had previously proposed trying to avoid duplicate detoastings in general,
but this fix takes care of what seems the most important case in practice
with very little effort or risk.

Back-patch to 8.4 so that the PostGIS folk won't have to wait a year to
have this fix in a production release.  (The issue exists further back,
of course, but the code's diverged enough to make backpatching further a
higher-risk action.  Also it appears that the possible gains may be limited
in prior releases because of different handling of lossy operators.)

Peter did that without fixing this ...

per Pavel Stehule

about it doesn't simplify the grammar at all, and it does invite confusion
among those who only read the SELECT syntax summary and not the full details.
Per gripe from Jaime Casanova.

Pick up REGRESS_OPTS from contrib makefiles. Along the way, fix ordering of makefile tests to mimic gmake.

and integer datetimes are in use.  Per bug report from Hubert Depesz
Lubaczewski.

Alex Hunsaker

This is to help make it more obvious what the problem is, if the
encoding isn't what the test expects.

indigestion about this module.

to CREATE DATABASE command in pg_regress to allow correct checking of
locale-sensitive contrib modules.

cheats a bit, but it avoids unsatisfied dependencies in distribution
tarballs.  (found by make distcheck)

physical conversion when there are dropped columns in the same places in
the input and output tupdescs.  This avoids possible performance loss from
the recent patch to improve dropped-column handling, in some cases where
the old code would have worked.

This was changed in 8.2 but the documentation was not corrected.
Per gripe from Sam Mason.

truncate_identifier won't do anything if the passed-in strlen is already
less than NAMEDATALEN, which it always would be given the strlcpy usage.
This has been broken since the arrays-of-composite-types code went in.

Arguably truncate_identifier is suffering from excessive optimization
and should always process the string, but for the moment I'll take the
more localized patch.

Per bug #4987.

This test is clearly not being used anymore, since it's been broken for
long periods of time without anyone noticing.  Per discussion, it's not
worth keeping in our source tree.

to be shipped.  Also, allow 'make clean' to remove intermediate working files.

Berkus.

for standalone backends.

Although we probably ought to just remove this long-obsolete test case from
our code, it seems worthwhile to document the issue and fix in CVS first.

Jeff Janes