Robert Haas, per gripe from Erik Rijkers

Kevin Grittner, with markup adjustments.

used by array_agg(), string_agg(), and similar aggregate functions that use
"internal" as their transition datatype.  The previous coding thought this
took *no* extra space, since "internal" is pass-by-value; but actually these
aggregates typically consume a great deal of space.  Per bug #5608 from
Itagaki Takahiro, and fix suggestion from Hitoshi Harada.

Back-patch to 8.4, where array_agg was introduced.

Update comment about them in pg_get_functiondef.

look at a function but don't wish to fire up an editor.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Jan Urbanski

access it on Windows.  Per buildfarm.

Update the documentation, and back out a few ill-considered changes
whose folly I failed to realize for failure to read the documentation.

in temp relpaths.

Per buildfarm.

Also prevent possible repeat opening of pager in helpSQL().

This allows us to reliably remove all leftover temporary relation
files on cluster startup without reference to system catalogs or WAL;
therefore, we no longer include temporary relations in XLOG_XACT_COMMIT
and XLOG_XACT_ABORT WAL records.

Since these changes require including a backend ID in each
SharedInvalSmgrMsg, the size of the SharedInvalidationMessage.id
field has been reduced from two bytes to one, and the maximum number
of connections has been reduced from INT_MAX / 4 to 2^23-1.  It would
be possible to remove these restrictions by increasing the size of
SharedInvalidationMessage by 4 bytes, but right now that doesn't seem
like a good trade-off.

Review by Jaime Casanova and Tom Lane.

I just noticed that libpq's pqsignal.h was violating our general inclusion
style guidelines by explicitly including postgres_fe.h.  Remove that, and
put it in pqsignal.c where it belongs.

functions to the core XML code.  Per discussion, the former depends on
XMLOPTION while the others do not.  These supersede a version previously
offered by contrib/xml2.

Mike Fowler, reviewed by Pavel Stehule

path that specifies useTemp, but there is no active temp schema in the
current session.  (This can happen if the path was saved during a transaction
that created a temp schema and was later rolled back.)  For existing callers
it's sufficient to ignore the useTemp flag in this case, though we might
later want to offer an option to create a fresh temp schema.  So far as I can
tell this is just an Assert failure: in a non-assert build, the code would
push a zero onto the new search path, which is useless but not very harmful.
Per bug report from Heikki.

Back-patch to 8.3; prior versions don't have this code.

Since the only purpose of WAL-loggin SharedInvalidationMessages is to support
Hot Standby operation, they needn't be included when wal_level < hot_standby.

Back-patch to 9.0.

Review by Heikki Linnakanagas and Fujii Masao.

and input file name, per bug #5617 from Leo Shklovskii.  Rearrange the
corresponding code in pg_dump and pg_dumpall so that all three programs
handle this in a consistent, straightforward fashion.

Back-patch to 9.0, but no further.  Although this is certainly a bug, it's
possible that people have scripts that will be broken by the added error
check, so it seems better not to change the behavior in stable branches.

Thom Brown

Fujii Masao

out immediately on any out-of-memory condition.  It's rather pointless to
imagine that pgbench will be able to continue usefully after a malloc
failure, and in any case there were a number of unchecked mallocs.

times) to pgbench.

Florian Pflug, reviewed by Greg Smith

and the editor's cursor will be initially placed on that line.  In \e the
lines are counted with respect to the query buffer, while in \ef they are
counted with line 1 = first line of function body.  These choices are useful
for positioning the cursor on the line of a previously-reported error.

To avoid assumptions about what switch the user's editor takes for this
purpose, invent a new psql variable EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH with (at
present) no default value.

One incompatibility from previous behavior is that "\e 1234" will now
take "1234" as a line number not a file name.  There are at least two
ways to select a numerically-named file if you really want to.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Jan Urbanski, with further editing by Robert Haas
and Tom Lane

continue to accept an empty array with dimension information. array_send()
can output such arrays.

Per report from Vladimir Shakhov.

Again, back-patch all the way to 7.4.

ecpgerrno.h hasn't materially changed since PostgreSQL 7.4, so this has
been wrong for a very long time.  Back-patch all the way.

Satoshi Nagayasu

pairs that can be handled by xslt_process().

There is much else to do here, but this patch seems useful in its own right
for as long as this code survives.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Mike Fowler

better handling of NULL elements within the arrays.  The third parameter
is a string that should be used to represent a NULL element, or should
be translated into a NULL element, respectively.  If the third parameter
is NULL it behaves the same as the two-parameter form.

There are two incompatible changes in the behavior of the two-parameter form
of string_to_array.  First, it will return an empty (zero-element) array
rather than NULL when the input string is of zero length.  Second, if the
field separator is NULL, the function splits the string into individual
characters, rather than returning NULL as before.  These two changes make
this form fully compatible with the behavior of the new three-parameter form.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Brendan Jurd

surrounding text refers to the example inline.

Per observation from Tom Lane that the previous patch to these files was
not consistent with what is done elsewhere in the docs.

expressions.  We need to deal with this when handling subscripts in an array
assignment, and also when catching an exception.  In an Assert-enabled build
these omissions led to Assert failures, but I think in a normal build the
only consequence would be short-term memory leakage; which may explain why
this wasn't reported from the field long ago.

Back-patch to all supported versions.  7.4 doesn't have exceptions, but
otherwise these bugs go all the way back.

Heikki Linnakangas and Tom Lane

Daniele Varrazzo

can be caught in the same places that could catch an ordinary RAISE ERROR
in the same location.  The previous coding insisted on throwing the error
from the block containing the active exception handler; which is arguably
more surprising, and definitely unlike Oracle's behavior.

Not back-patching, since this is a pretty obscure corner case.  The risk
of breaking somebody's code in a minor version update seems to outweigh
any possible benefit.

Piyush Newe, reviewed by David Fetter

it offers support for namespace mapping.

Mike Fowler, reviewed by David Fetter

statistics counts.  These numbers are being accumulated but haven't yet been
transmitted to the collector (and won't be, until the transaction ends).
For some purposes, though, it's handy to be able to look at them.

Joel Jacobson, reviewed by Itagaki Takahiro

Peter Fokkinga

other columns to be referenced without listing them in GROUP BY, so long as
the primary key column(s) are listed in GROUP BY.

Eventually we should also allow functional dependency on a UNIQUE constraint
when the columns are marked NOT NULL, but that has to wait until NOT NULL
constraints are represented in pg_constraint, because we need to have
pg_constraint OIDs for all the conditions needed to ensure functional
dependency.

Peter Eisentraut, reviewed by Alex Hunsaker and Tom Lane