mkinstalldirs used to handle no arguments, but mkdir doesn't.

Also remove the .SILENT setting, that was previously removed from
Makefile.global as well.

Thom Brown

so simply leads to data waiting in wal_buffers which then causes
later commits to potentially do emergency writes and for all forms
of replication to be potentially delayed without need or benefit.
Issue pointed out exactly by Fujii Masao, following bug report
by Robert Haas on a separate though related topic.

of requirements and documentation on LogStandbySnapshot(). Fixes
two minor bugs reported by Tom Lane that would lead to an incorrect
snapshot after transaction wraparound. Also fix two other problems
discovered that would give incorrect snapshots in certain cases.
ProcArrayApplyRecoveryInfo() substantially rewritten. Some minor
refactoring of xact_redo_apply() and ExpireTreeKnownAssignedTransactionIds().

(pg_upgrade_support).

7.4.29.

requests and discussions with Yeb Havinga and Kevin Grittner.

on the buildfarm.

cmp parameter for pg_scandir().  The code failed to support this anyway
for Sun/Windows, so pretending we could accept a parameter other than
NULL was just asking for trouble.

Add PGAPPICON to all executable makefiles.

Add documentation.

Supports migration from PG 8.3 and 8.4.

Argentina, Australian Antarctic, Bangladesh, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan,
Palestine, Russia, Syria, Tunisia.  Historical corrections for Taiwan.

Per discussion, if we have PKT in there then PKST should be too.
Also, fix mistaken claim that these abbrevs are not known to zic.

Fixes a complaint from src/tools/pginclude/cpluspluscheck reported by
Peter Eisentraut.

archive_command) as soon as possible, namely just before issuing a new call
of archive_command, even when there is a backlog of files to be archived.
The original coding would only absorb new settings after clearing the backlog
and returning to the outer loop.  Per discussion.

Back-patch to 8.3.  The logic in prior versions is a bit different and it
doesn't seem worth taking any risks of breaking it.

As suggested by Andy Lester.

tables --- the parent table no longer got checked, either.  Per bug #5458
from Takahiro Itagaki.

Now validators work properly even when the settings contain
parameters that affect behavior of the function, like search_path.

Reported by Erwin Brandstetter.

MIN or MAX, we must take care to insert the added qual in a legal place among
the existing indexquals, if any.  The btree index AM requires the quals to
appear in index-column order.  We didn't have to worry about this before
because "target IS NOT NULL" was just treated as a plain scan filter condition;
but as of 9.0 it can be an index qual and then it has to follow the rule.
Per report from Ian Barwick.

Noted by KOIZUMI Satoru.

My initial impression that glibc was measuring the precision in characters
(which is what the Linux man page says it does) was incorrect.  It does take
the precision to be in bytes, but it also tries to truncate the string at a
character boundary.  The bottom line remains the same: it will mess up
if the string is not in the encoding it expects, so we need to avoid %.*s
anytime there's a significant risk of that.  Previous code changes are still
good, but adjust the comments to reflect this knowledge.  Per research by
Hernan Gonzalez.

Depending on which spec you read, field widths and precisions in %s may be
counted either in bytes or characters.  Our code was assuming bytes, which
is wrong at least for glibc's implementation, and in any case libc might
have a different idea of the prevailing encoding than we do.  Hence, for
portable results we must avoid using anything more complex than just "%s"
unless the string to be printed is known to be all-ASCII.

This patch fixes the cases I could find, including the psql formatting
failure reported by Hernan Gonzalez.  In HEAD only, I also added comments
to some places where it appears safe to continue using "%.*s".

ECPG connect routine only checked for NULL to find empty parameters, but user and password can also be "".

This should allow LD_LIBRARY_PATH to work as desired.  Per trouble
report from Andy Colson.

refers to itself (directly or indirectly).  Instead, print a message when
recursion is detected, and don't expand the repeated reference.  Per bug
#5448 from Francis Markham.

Back-patch to 8.0.  Although the issue exists in 7.4 as well, it seems
impractical to fix there because of the lack of any state stack that
could be used to track active expansions.