are two basically different kinds of scankeys, and we ought to try harder
to indicate which is used in each place in the code.  I've chosen the names
"search scankey" and "insertion scankey", though you could make about
as good an argument for "operator scankey" and "comparison function
scankey".

can convey information to clients on constraint violation.

an array of regtype, rather than an array of OIDs. This is likely to
be more useful to user, and the type OID can easily be obtained by
casting a regtype value to OID. Per suggestion from Tom.

Update the documentation and regression tests, and bump the catversion.

a va_list. Christof Petig's previous patch made this change, but neglected
to update ecpglib/descriptor.c, resulting in a compiler warning (and a
likely runtime crash) on AMD64 and PPC.

to prepared statements with unknown type are correctly enforced, per
recent bug report.

data type is unspecified or is declared to be "unknown", the type will
be inferred from the context in which the parameter is used. This was
already possible for protocol-level prepared statements.

isn't being used anywhere anymore, and there seems no point in a generic
index_keytest() routine when two out of three remaining access methods
aren't using it.  Also, add a comment documenting a convention for
letting access methods define private flag bits in ScanKey sk_flags.
There are no such flags at the moment but I'm thinking about changing
btree's handling of "required keys" to use flag bits in the keys
rather than a count of required key positions.  Also, if some AM did
still want SK_NEGATE then it would be reasonable to treat it as a private
flag bit.

by Magnus Hagander

but a lot better than nothing at all ...

transaction as aborted.  Since we only call XactLockTableWait on XIDs
that we believe to be currently running, the odds of this code ever
actually firing are minimal.  It's certainly unnecessary, since a
transaction that's not either running or committed will be presumed
aborted anyway.  What's more, it's not hard to imagine scenarios where
this could result in corrupting pg_clog: for instance, if a bogus XID
somehow got passed to XactLockTableWait.  I think the code probably
dates from the ancient era when we didn't have TransactionIdIsInProgress;
back then it may have been necessary, but now I think it's a waste of
cycles and potentially dangerous.  Per discussion with Qingqing Zhou
and Karsten Hilbert.

permissions on the functions and operators contained in the opclass.
Since we already require superuser privilege to create an operator class,
there's no expansion-of-privilege hazard here, but if someone were to get
the idea of building an opclass containing functions that need security
restrictions, we'd better warn them off.  Also, change the permission
checks from have-execute-privilege to have-ownership, and then comment
them all out since they're dead code anyway under the superuser restriction.

type definition.  Because use of a type's I/O conversion functions isn't
access-checked, CREATE TYPE amounts to granting public execute permissions
on the functions, and so allowing it to anybody means that someone could
theoretically gain access to a function he's not supposed to be able to
execute.  The parameter-type restrictions already enforced by CREATE TYPE
make it fairly unlikely that this oversight is meaningful in practice,
but still it seems like a good idea to plug the hole going forward.
Also, document the implicit grant just in case anybody gets the idea of
building I/O functions that might need security restrictions.

prepared statements, per report from David Wheeler.

fmgr_info(), in the TopMemoryContext. I couldn't see that the code
actually leaked, but in general I think it's fragile to assume that
pfree'ing an FmgrInfo along with its fn_extra field is enough to
reclaim all the resources allocated by fmgr_info().  I changed the
code to do its allocations in a new child context of
TopMemoryContext, MbProcContext. When we want to release the
allocations we can just reset the context, which is cleaner.

our own command (or more generally, xmin = our xact and cmin >= current
command ID) should not be seen as good.  Else we may try to update rows
we already updated.  This error was inserted last August while fixing the
even bigger problem that the old coding wouldn't see *any* tuples inserted
by our own transaction as good.  Per report from Euler Taveira de Oliveira.

It seems that recent gcc versions can optimize away calls to these functions
even when the functions do not exist on the platform, resulting in a bogus
positive result.  Avoid this by using a non-constant argument and ensuring
that the function result is not simply discarded.  Per report from
François Laupretre.

certainly.  Per report from George Woodring.

of the CREATE CONVERSION syntax, for consistency with the other SQL
reference pages.

> * -Add sleep() function, remove from regress.c

Replace the former ad-hoc implementation used in the regression tests.
Joachim Wieland

rather than "return expr;" -- the latter style is used in most of the
tree. I kept the parentheses when they were necessary or useful because
the return expression was complex.

non-NULL during the guts of plpgsql_exec_trigger() and
plpgsql_exec_function(). Therefore, we can remove the NULL check,
per discussion on -patches.

listed in the column's most-common-values statistics entry.  This gives
us an exact selectivity result for the portion of the column population
represented by the MCV list, which can be a big leg up in accuracy if
that's a large fraction of the population.  The heuristics involving
pattern contents and prefix are applied only to the part of the population
not included in the MCV list.

one argument at a time and then inserting the argument into a Python
list via PyList_SetItem(). This "steals" the reference to the argument:
that is, the reference to the new list member is now held by the Python
list itself. This works fine, except if an elog occurs. This causes the
function's PG_CATCH() block to be invoked, which decrements the
reference counts on both the current argument and the list of arguments.
If the elog happens to occur during the second or subsequent iteration
of the loop, the reference count on the current argument will be
decremented twice.

The fix is simple: set the local pointer to the current argument to NULL
immediately after adding it to the argument list. This ensures that the
Py_XDECREF() in the PG_CATCH() block doesn't double-decrement.

< * %Allow pooled connections to list all prepared statements
> * -%Allow pooled connections to list all prepared statements

operator names.  This is needed when dumping operator definitions that have
COMMUTATOR (or similar) links to operators in other schemas.
Apparently Daniel Whitter is the first person ever to try this :-(

behavior.

and change two elogs into ereports because they could actually occur
in practice.

Rationalise perl header inclusions via a common include file, which also
declares routines in plperl.c and spi_internal.c used in other files.

Along the way, also stop perl from hijacking stdio and other stuff on Windows.

difference between USE_ASSERT_CHECKING and not: the assert_enabled
variable is always there.

Stefan Kaltenbrunner.

and nail a couple more system indexes into cache.  This doesn't make
any difference in normal system operation, but when forcing constant
cache resets it's difficult to get through the rules regression test
without these changes.