creation of a shell type.  This allows a less hacky way of dealing with
the mutual dependency between a datatype and its I/O functions: make a
shell type, then make the functions, then define the datatype fully.
We should fix pg_dump to handle things this way, but this commit just deals
with the backend.

Martijn van Oosterhout, with some corrections by Tom Lane.

does not return None, per suggestion from Tom.

(I didn't use his patch, however). A void-returning PL/Python function
must return None (from Python), which is translated into a void datum
(and *not* NULL) for Postgres. I also added some regression tests for
this functionality.

* Split out libpq pgpass and environment documentation sections to make
  it easier for non-developers to find

backend version in C using > and < comparisons.

when the passed-down eflags indicate they can.
Simon Riggs and Tom Lane

bits indicating which optional capabilities can actually be exercised
at runtime.  This will allow Sort and Material nodes, and perhaps later
other nodes, to avoid unnecessary overhead in common cases.
This commit just adds the infrastructure and arranges to pass the correct
flag values down to plan nodes; none of the actual optimizations are here
yet.  I'm committing this separately in case anyone wants to measure the
added overhead.  (It should be negligible.)

Simon Riggs and Tom Lane

particular get rid of single quotes around language names and old WITH ()
construct.

by David Fetter

each tuple, as per my proposal of several days ago.  Also, clean up
sort memory management by keeping all working data in a separate memory
context, and refine the handling of low-memory conditions.

> * -Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery

Kirkwood, minor improvements by Neil Conway. The regression tests have
been updated and the catversion has been bumped.

- "Add ON COMMIT capability to CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" is done

- "Allow PREPARE to automatically determine parameter types" is done

- "Clean up compiler warnings (especially with gcc version 4)" is done:
  AFAIK there are no remaining gcc4 compiler warnings to be fixed.

- Creating rules to do view updates is *not* an easy TODO item

> 	o Allow infinite dates and intervals just like infinite timestamps

< 	o %Disallow dropping of an inherited constraint

the script is not executable as UCS_to_most.pl is in CVS.  It also won't
pick up any custom setting of the perl version/location to use.  This
patch calls perl scripts like $(PERL) $(srcdir)/script.pl.

Kris Jurka

Make restricted_exec feature for Windows more robust by using the environment
to pass the flag instead of the command line - some implementations of
getopt fail if getopt arguments are present after non-getopt arguments.

make initdb -U username work as advertised; back out bogus patch at rev 1.42
and supply real fix for problem it tried to address.

Per Michael Fuhr.

possible ScanDirection alternatives rather than magic numbers
(-1, 0, 1).  Also, use the ScanDirection macros in a few places
rather than directly checking whether `dir == ForwardScanDirection'
and the like. Per patch from James William Pye. His patch also
changed ScanDirection to be a "char" rather than an enum, which
I haven't applied.

by decompiling the typdefaultbin expression, not just printing the typdefault
text which may be out-of-date or assume the wrong schema search path.  (It's
the same hazard as for adbin vs adsrc in column defaults.)  The catalogs.sgml
spec for pg_type implies that the correct procedure is to look to
typdefaultbin first and consider typdefault only if typdefaultbin is NULL.
I made dumping of both domains and base types do that, even though in the
current backend code typdefaultbin is always correct for domains and
typdefault for base types --- might as well try to future-proof it a little.
Per bug report from Alexander Galler.

as Tru64's.  Per previous discussion.

in leaking memory when invoking a PL/Python procedure that raises an
exception. Unfortunately this still leaks memory, but at least the
largest leak has been plugged.

This patch also fixes a reference counting mistake in PLy_modify_tuple()
for 8.0, 8.1 and HEAD: we don't actually own a reference to `platt', so
we shouldn't Py_DECREF() it.

previous version iwthout recreating tsvector fields...

Thanks to Alexander Presber <aljoscha@weisshuhn.de> to discover a problem.

allocates the control data.  The per-tape buffers are allocated only
on first use.  This saves memory in situations where tuplesort.c
overestimates the number of tapes needed (ie, there are fewer runs
than tapes).  Also, this makes legitimate the coding in inittapes()
that includes tape buffer space in the maximum-memory calculation:
when inittapes runs, we've already expended the whole allowed memory
on tuple storage, and so we'd better not allocate all the tape buffers
until we've flushed some tuples out of memory.

with fixed merge order (fixed number of "tapes") was based on obsolete
assumptions, namely that tape drives are expensive.  Since our "tapes"
are really just a couple of buffers, we can have a lot of them given
adequate workspace.  This allows reduction of the number of merge passes
with consequent savings of I/O during large sorts.

Simon Riggs with some rework by Tom Lane