Investigation shows that some intermittent build failures in ecpg are the
result of a gmake bug that was reported quite some time ago:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30653

Preventing parallel builds of the ecpg subdirectories seems to dodge the
bug.  Per yesterday's pgsql-hackers discussion, there are some other things
in the subdirectory makefiles that seem rather unsafe for parallel builds
too, but there's little point in fixing them as long as we have to work
around a make bug.

Back-patch to 9.1; parallel builds weren't very well supported before
that anyway.

Commit 2cfb1c6f fixed some issues caused
by Python 3.3 choosing to iterate through dict entries in a different order
than before.  But here's another one: the test cases adjusted here made two
bad entries in a dict and expected the one complained of would always be
the same.

Possibly this should be back-patched further than 9.2, but there seems
little point unless the earlier fix is too.

Create an internal function pqDropConnection that does the physical socket
close and cleans up closely-associated state.  This removes a bunch of ad
hoc, not always consistent closure code.  The ulterior motive is to have a
single place to wait for a spawned child backend to exit, but this seems
like good cleanup even if that never happens.

I went back and forth on whether to include "conn->status = CONNECTION_BAD"
in pqDropConnection's actions, but for the moment decided not to.  Only a
minority of the call sites actually want that, and in any case it's
arguable that conn->status is slightly higher-level state, and thus not
part of this function's purview.

Etsuro Fujita

This affects initdb, clusterdb, reindexdb, and vacuumdb in master
and 9.2; in earlier branches, only initdb is affected.

This fix removes an unnecessary incompatibility with the old behavior of
the unix_socket_directory parameter.  Since pathnames with embedded spaces
are fairly popular on some platforms, the incompatibility could be
significant in practice.  We'll still strip unquoted leading/trailing
spaces, however.

No docs update since the documentation already implied that it worked
like this.

Per bug #7514 from Murray Cumming.

Shigeru Hanada

If we call pg_ctl stop, the server might continue and thus
hold a log file for a short time after it has deleted its pid file,
(which is when pg_ctl will exit), and so a subsequent attempt to
open the log file might fail.

We therefore try to open it a few times, sleeping one second between
tries, to give the server time to exit.

This corrects an error that was observed on the buildfarm.

Backpatched to 9.2,

Show target number of tuples and percentage in addition to current
number.

When the startup process restores a WAL file from the archive, it deletes
any old file with the same name and renames the new file in its place. On
Windows, however, when a file is deleted, it still lingers as long as a
process holds a file handle open on it. With cascading replication, a
walsender process can hold the old file open, so the rename() in the startup
process would fail. To fix that, rename the old file to a temporary name, to
make the original file name available for reuse, before deleting the old
file.

Give the correct name of the GUC parameter being complained of.
Also, emit a more suitable SQLSTATE (INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE,
not the default INTERNAL_ERROR).

Gurjeet Singh, errcode adjustment by me

Also, set the release date to 2012-09-10, since we're pretty well
committed to that now.

Call pg_dumpall using -f switch instead of redirection, to avoid
writing the output in text mode and generating spurious carriage
returns. Remove to carriage return ignoring hack introduced by
commit e442b0f0.

Backpatch to 9.2.

pg_upgrade opened the output from pg_dumpall in text mode and
wrote the split files in text mode. This caused unwanted eating
of intended carriage returns on input and production of spurious
carriage returns on output. To avoid this, open all these files
in binary mode. On non-Windows platforms, this change has no
effect.

Backpatch to 9.0. On 9.0 and 9.1, we also switch from redirecting
pg_dumpall's output to using pg_dumpall's -f switch, for the same
reason.

Perl, for some unaccountable reason, believes it's a good idea to reset
SIGFPE handling to SIG_IGN.  Which wouldn't be a good idea even if it
worked; but on some platforms (Linux at least) it doesn't work at all,
instead resulting in forced process termination if the signal occurs.
Given the lack of other complaints, it seems safe to assume that Perl
never actually provokes SIGFPE and so there is no value in the setting
anyway.  Hence, reset it to our normal handler after initializing Perl.

Report, analysis and patch by Andres Freund.

This is just neatnik-ism, but since we do it for comparable code in elog.c,
we may as well do it here.

This is needed to match recent changes elsewhere.  Along the way, some
renaming for clarity.

KaiGai Kohei

The planner previously assumed that parameter Vars having the same absolute
query level, varno, and varattno could safely be assigned the same runtime
PARAM_EXEC slot, even though they might be different Vars appearing in
different subqueries.  This was (probably) safe before the introduction of
CTEs, but the lazy-evalution mechanism used for CTEs means that a CTE can
be executed during execution of some other subquery, causing the lifespan
of Params at the same syntactic nesting level as the CTE to overlap with
use of the same slots inside the CTE.  In 9.1 we created additional hazards
by using the same parameter-assignment technology for nestloop inner scan
parameters, but it was broken before that, as illustrated by the added
regression test.

To fix, restructure the planner's management of PlannerParamItems so that
items having different semantic lifespans are kept rigorously separated.
This will probably result in complex queries using more runtime PARAM_EXEC
slots than before, but the slots are cheap enough that this hardly matters.
Also, stop generating PlannerParamItems containing Params for subquery
outputs: all we really need to do is reserve the PARAM_EXEC slot number,
and that now only takes incrementing a counter.  The planning code is
simpler and probably faster than before, as well as being more correct.

Per report from Vik Reykja.

These changes will mostly also need to be made in the back branches, but
I'm going to hold off on that until after 9.2.0 wraps.

It doesn't really need rel.h; relcache.h is enough.

Reported by Peter Eisentraut.

on Windows.  Slightly cleanup log output on Windows given this
restriction.

Backpatch to 9.2.

The cascading replication code assumed that the current RecoveryTargetTLI
never changes, but that's not true with recovery_target_timeline='latest'.
The obvious upshot of that is that RecoveryTargetTLI in shared memory needs
to be protected by a lock. A less obvious consequence is that when a
cascading standby is connected, and the standby switches to a new target
timeline after scanning the archive, it will continue to stream WAL to the
cascading standby, but from a wrong file, ie. the file of the previous
timeline. For example, if the standby is currently streaming from the middle
of file 000000010000000000000005, and the timeline changes, the standby
will continue to stream from that file. However, the WAL on the new
timeline is in file 000000020000000000000005, so the standby sends garbage
from 000000010000000000000005 to the cascading standby, instead of the
correct WAL from file 000000020000000000000005.

This also fixes a related bug where a partial WAL segment is restored from
the archive and streamed to a cascading standby. The code assumed that when
a WAL segment is copied from the archive, it can immediately be fully
streamed to a cascading standby. However, if the segment is only partially
filled, ie. has the right size, but only N first bytes contain valid WAL,
that's not safe. That can happen if a partial WAL segment is manually copied
to the archive, or if a partial WAL segment is archived because a server is
started up on a new timeline within that segment. The cascading standby will
get confused if the WAL it received is not valid, and will get stuck until
it's restarted. This patch fixes that problem by not allowing WAL restored
from the archive to be streamed to a cascading standby until it's been
replayed, and thus validated.

Serializable Snapshot Isolation used for serializable transactions
depends on acquiring SIRead locks on all heap relation tuples which
are used to generate the query result, so that a later delete or
update of any of the tuples can flag a read-write conflict between
transactions.  This is normally handled in heapam.c, with tuple level
locking.  Since an index-only scan avoids heap access in many cases,
building the result from the index tuple, the necessary predicate
locks were not being acquired for all tuples in an index-only scan.

To prevent problems with tuple IDs which are vacuumed and re-used
while the transaction still matters, the xmin of the tuple is part of
the tag for the tuple lock.  Since xmin is not available to the
index-only scan for result rows generated from the index tuples, it
is not possible to acquire a tuple-level predicate lock in such
cases, in spite of having the tid.  If we went to the heap to get the
xmin value, it would no longer be an index-only scan.  Rather than
prohibit index-only scans under serializable transaction isolation,
we acquire an SIRead lock on the page containing the tuple, when it
was not necessary to visit the heap for other reasons.

Backpatch to 9.2.

Kevin Grittner and Tom Lane

Each setup block is run as a single PQexec submission, and some
statements such as VACUUM cannot be combined with others in such a
block.

Backpatch to 9.2.

Kevin Grittner and Tom Lane

with a socket directory mismatch with the new server.

Backpatch to 9.2.

The same message is used in both pg_restore and pg_dump, and it's
confusing to output "restoring data for table xyz" when the user
is just doing a pg_dump.

Michael Paquier

the week via ISO or Gregorian designations.  The fix is to store the
day-of-week consistently as 1-7, Sunday = 1.

Fixes bug reported by Marc Munro

Backpatch to 9.2.

socket location.  Also, prevent putting the socket in the current
directory for pre-9.1 servers in live check and non-live check mode,
because pre-9.1 pg_ctl -w can't handle it.

Backpatch to 9.2.

pg_upgrade produces a platform-specific script to remove the old
directory, but on Windows it has not been making sure that the
paths it writes as arguments for rmdir and del use the backslash
path separator, which will cause these scripts to fail.

The fix is backpatched to Release 9.0.

This gets rid of a dangerous-looking use of the not-volatile XLogCtl
pointer in a couple of spinlock-protected sections, where the normal
coding rule is that you should only access shared memory through a
pointer-to-volatile.  I think the risk is only hypothetical not actual,
since for there to be a bug the compiler would have to move the spinlock
acquire or release across the memcpy() call, which one sincerely hopes
it will not.  Still, it looks cleaner this way.

Per comment from Daniel Farina and subsequent discussion.

Backpatch to 9.2 - code before that is quite different and should
not have these defects.

When starting either an old or new postmaster, force it to place its Unix
socket in the current directory.  This makes it even harder for accidental
connections to occur during pg_upgrade, and also works around some
scenarios where the default socket location isn't usable.  (For example,
if the default location is something other than "/tmp", it might not exist
during "make check".)

When checking an already-running old postmaster, find out its actual socket
directory location from postmaster.pid, if possible.  This dodges problems
with an old postmaster having a configured location different from the
default built into pg_upgrade's libpq.  We can't find that out if the old
postmaster is pre-9.1, so also document how to cope with such scenarios
manually.

In support of this, centralize handling of the connection-related command
line options passed to pg_upgrade's subsidiary programs, such as pg_dump.
This should make future changes easier.

Bruce Momjian and Tom Lane

Formerly it would only show them for relkinds 'r' and 'f' (plain tables
and foreign tables).  However, as of 9.2, views can also have reloptions,
namely security_barrier.  The relkind restriction seems pointless and
not at all future-proof, so just print reloptions whenever there are any.

In passing, make some cosmetic improvements to the code that pulls the
"tableinfo" fields out of the PGresult.

Noted and patched by Dean Rasheed, with adjustment for all relkinds by me.