pattern comparisons such as LIKE and regex.

Added new version of ecpg's parser test script which was written by Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net>.

than doing it aggressively whenever the tail-XID pointer is advanced, because
this way we don't need to do it while holding SerializableXactHashLock.

This also fixes bug #5915 spotted by YAMAMOTO Takashi, and removes an
obsolete comment spotted by Kevin Grittner.

It should cause a elog(FATAL) error, and it fact it was simply causing
a elog(ERROR).

Jan Urbański

This improves reporting, as the error string now includes the actual
Python exception. As a side effect, this no longer sets the errcode to
ERRCODE_DATA_EXCEPTION, which might be considered a feature, as it's
not documented and not clear why iterator errors should be treated
differently.

Jan Urbański

Per a suggestion from Thom Brown, though this is not his proposed patch.

Per suggestions from Thom Brown and Robert Haas.

periodically rescan the archive for new timelines, while waiting for new WAL
segments to arrive. This allows you to set up a standby server that follows
the TLI change if another standby server is promoted to master. Before this,
you had to restart the standby server to make it notice the new timeline.

This patch only scans the archive for TLI changes, it won't follow a TLI
change in streaming replication. That is much needed too, but it would be a
much bigger patch than I dare to sneak in this late in the release cycle.

There was discussion on improving the sanity checking of the WAL segments so
that the system would notice more reliably if the new timeline isn't an
ancestor of the current one, but that is not included in this patch.

Reviewed by Fujii Masao.

Per Josh Berkus; some additional explanatory text by me.

Thom Brown

This fixes an oversight in commit 946045f0
of 2010-08-21, as reported by Itagaki Takahiro.  Also a couple of minor
cosmetic adjustments.

Kevin Grittner

assertions.

Seen with an older gcc version.  I'm not sure these represent any real
risk factor, but still a bit scary.  Anyway we have lots of other
volatile-marked variables in this code, so a couple more won't hurt.

Per testing with a compiler that doesn't like that.

Mixing them together alphabetically won't be nice.  Per my gripe of
2011-02-12.

If a standby is broadcasting reply messages and we have named
one or more standbys in synchronous_standby_names then allow
users who set synchronous_replication to wait for commit, which
then provides strict data integrity guarantees. Design avoids
sending and receiving transaction state information so minimises
bookkeeping overheads. We synchronize with the highest priority
standby that is connected and ready to synchronize. Other standbys
can be defined to takeover in case of standby failure.

This version has very strict behaviour; more relaxed options
may be added at a later date.

Simon Riggs and Fujii Masao, with reviews by Yeb Havinga, Jaime
Casanova, Heikki Linnakangas and Robert Haas, plus the assistance
of many other design reviewers.

Since this field is after a variable-length field, it can't simply be
accessed via the C struct for pg_index.  Fortunately, the relcache already
did the dirty work of pulling the information out to where it can be
accessed easily, so this is a one-line fix.

Andres Freund

toast file names to match the new relfilenode.

failures.

error.

It's more likely that pg_pltemplate will go away in the future than
that we'll add additional specialized infrastructure for it.

The original scheme for this was to symlink plpython.$DLSUFFIX to
plpython2.$DLSUFFIX, but that doesn't work on Windows, and only
accidentally failed to fail because of the way that CREATE LANGUAGE created
or didn't create new C functions.  My changes of yesterday exposed the
weakness of that approach.  To fix, get rid of the symlink and make
pg_pltemplate show what's really going on.

In createlang this is a one-line change.  In droplang there's a whole
lot of cruft that can be discarded since the extension mechanism now
manages removal of the language's support functions.

Also, add deprecation notices to these two programs' reference pages,
since per discussion we may toss them overboard altogether in a release
or two.

Noted by Andy Colson

In preparation for 9.1alpha4 release notes, where only the 9.1alpha4
features will be emphasized.

Recommend use of CREATE EXTENSION rather than plain CREATE LANGUAGE
where relevant.  Encourage PL authors to provide extension wrappers
for their PLs.