output mode, cause the hex digits after the period to always be at least
four hex digits, with zero-padding.

... because the latter plays games with the privileges for language SQL.
It looks like running alter_generic in parallel with "misc" is OK though.

Also, adjust serial_schedule to maintain the same test ordering (up to
parallelism) as parallel_schedule.

Fujii Masao

AddToDataDirLockFile() supports out-of-order updates of the lockfile
nowadays.

If postmaster changed postmaster.pid while pg_ctl was reading it, pg_ctl
could overrun the buffer it allocated for the file. Fix by reading the
whole file to memory with one read() call.

initdb contains an identical copy of the readfile() function, but the files
that initdb reads are static, not modified concurrently. Nevertheless, add
a simple bounds-check there, if only to silence static analysis tools.

Per report from Dave Vitek. Backpatch to all supported branches.

In the previous coding, new backend processes would attempt to create their
self-pipe during the OwnLatch call in InitProcess.  However, pipe creation
could fail if the kernel is short of resources; and the system does not
recover gracefully from a FATAL error right there, since we have armed the
dead-man switch for this process and not yet set up the on_shmem_exit
callback that would disarm it.  The postmaster then forces an unnecessary
database-wide crash and restart, as reported by Sean Chittenden.

There are various ways we could rearrange the code to fix this, but the
simplest and sanest seems to be to split out creation of the self-pipe into
a new function InitializeLatchSupport, which must be called from a place
where failure is allowed.  For most processes that gets called in
InitProcess or InitAuxiliaryProcess, but processes that don't call either
but still use latches need their own calls.

Back-patch to 9.1, which has only a part of the latch logic that 9.2 and
HEAD have, but nonetheless includes this bug.

In commit 11e13185, I missed the case of
a CTE RTE that doesn't have a user-defined alias, but does have an
alias assigned by set_rtable_names().  Per report from Peter Eisentraut.

While at it, refactor slightly to reduce code duplication.

rather than just storing a pointer.

We don't need this hack any more.

Per compiler warning.

This change ensures that the planner will see implicit and explicit casts
as equivalent for all purposes, except in the minority of cases where
there's actually a semantic difference (as reflected by having a 3-argument
cast function).  In particular, this fixes cases where the EquivalenceClass
machinery failed to consider two references to a varchar column as
equivalent if one was implicitly cast to text but the other was explicitly
cast to text, as seen in bug #7598 from Vaclav Juza.  We have had similar
bugs before in other parts of the planner, so I think it's time to fix this
problem at the core instead of continuing to band-aid around it.

Remove set_coercionform_dontcare(), which represents the band-aid
previously in use for allowing matching of index and constraint expressions
with inconsistent cast labeling.  (We can probably get rid of
COERCE_DONTCARE altogether, but I don't think removing that enum value in
back branches would be wise; it's possible there's third party code
referring to it.)

Back-patch to 9.2.  We could go back further, and might want to once this
has been tested more; but for the moment I won't risk destabilizing plan
choices in long-since-stable branches.

Based on a suggestion by Peter Eisentraut.

When hashing a subplan like "WHERE (a, b) NOT IN (SELECT x, y FROM ...)",
findPartialMatch() attempted to match rows using the hashtable's internal
equality operators, which of course are for x and y's datatypes.  What we
need to use are the potentially cross-type operators for a=x, b=y, etc.
Failure to do that leads to wrong answers or even crashes.  The scope for
problems is limited to cases where we have different types with compatible
hash functions (else we'd not be using a hashed subplan), but for example
int4 vs int8 can cause the problem.

Per bug #7597 from Bo Jensen.  This has been wrong since the hashed-subplan
code was written, so patch all the way back.

Rename replication_timeout to wal_sender_timeout, and add a new setting
called wal_receiver_timeout that does the same at the walreceiver side.
There was previously no timeout in walreceiver, so if the network went down,
for example, the walreceiver could take a long time to notice that the
connection was lost. Now with the two settings, both sides of a replication
connection will detect a broken connection similarly.

It is no longer necessary to manually set wal_receiver_status_interval to
a value smaller than the timeout. Both wal sender and receiver now
automatically send a "ping" message if more than 1/2 of the configured
timeout has elapsed, and it hasn't received any messages from the other end.

Amit Kapila, heavily edited by me.

Numerous flex and bison make rules have appeared in the source tree
over time, and they are all virtually identical, so we can replace
them by pattern rules with some variables for customization.

Users of pgxs will also be able to benefit from this.

Apparently, on some glibc versions this causes warnings when
optimization is not enabled.

Altogether, there appear to be too many incompatibilities surrounding
this.

The HINTs generated for these error cases vary across builds.  We
could try to work around that, but the test cases aren't really useful
enough to justify taking any trouble.

Per buildfarm.

We no longer use GetNewOidWithIndex on pg_largeobject; rather,
pg_largeobject_metadata's regular OID column is considered the repository
of OIDs for large objects.  The special functionality is still needed for
TOAST tables however.

dblink now has its own validator function dblink_fdw_validator(), which is
better than the core function postgresql_fdw_validator() because it gets
the list of legal options from libpq instead of having a hard-wired list.

Make the dblink extension module provide a standard foreign data wrapper
dblink_fdw that encapsulates use of this validator, and recommend use of
that wrapper instead of making up wrappers on the fly.

Unfortunately, because ad-hoc wrappers *were* recommended practice
previously, it's not clear when we can get rid of postgresql_fdw_validator
without causing upgrade problems.  But this is a step in the right
direction.

Shigeru Hanada, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei

Etsuro Fujita, with some wording adjustment by me.

Backpatch to 9.2.

The idea here is to make sure the planner will evaluate these functions
last not first among the filter conditions in psql pattern search and
tab-completion queries.  We've discussed this several times, and there
was consensus to do it back in August, but we didn't want to do it just
before a release.  Now seems like a safer time.

No catversion bump, since this catalog change doesn't create a backend
incompatibility nor any regression test result changes.

Building a shlib on AIX requires use of the mkldexport.sh script, but we
failed to install that, preventing its use from non-source-tree contexts.
Also, Makefile.aix had the wrong idea about where to find the installed
copy of the postgres.imp symbol file used by AIX.

Per report from John Pierce.  Patch all the way back, since this has been
broken since the beginning of PGXS.

Do read/write permissions checks at most once per large object descriptor,
not once per lo_read or lo_write call as before.  The repeated tests were
quite useless in the read case since the snapshot-based tests were
guaranteed to produce the same answer every time.  In the write case,
the extra tests could in principle detect revocation of write privileges
after a series of writes has started --- but there's a race condition there
anyway, since we'd check privileges before performing and certainly before
committing the write.  So there's no real advantage to checking every
single time, and we might as well redefine it as "only check the first
time".

On the same reasoning, remove the LargeObjectExists checks in inv_write
and inv_truncate.  We already checked existence when the descriptor was
opened, and checking again doesn't provide any real increment of safety
that would justify the cost.

I extracted the refactoring patch from a larger patch that contained other
changes too, but missed one unintentional change and didn't test enough...

This is just refactoring with no user-visible effect, to make the code more
readable.

The former name was too likely to conflict with symbols from external
headers; and, as seen in recent buildfarm failures in member spoonbill,
it has now happened at least in plpython.

Fujii Masao

e.g. fsync  2103.613 ops/sec (   475 microsecs/op)

Peter Geoghegan

I found that these functions tend to return -1 while leaving an empty error
message string in the PGconn, if they suffer some kind of I/O error on the
file.  The reason is that lo_close, which thinks it's executed a perfectly
fine SQL command, clears the errorMessage.  The minimum-change workaround
is to reorder operations here so that we don't fill the errorMessage until
after lo_close.

lo_export returns -1, not zero, on failure.

libpq defines these functions as accepting "size_t" lengths ... but the
underlying backend functions expect signed int32 length parameters, and so
will misinterpret any value exceeding INT_MAX.  Fix the libpq side to throw
error rather than possibly doing something unexpected.

This is a bug of long standing, but I doubt it's worth back-patching.  The
problem is really pretty academic anyway with lo_read/lo_write, since any
caller expecting sane behavior would have to have provided a multi-gigabyte
buffer.  It's slightly more pressing with lo_truncate, but still we haven't
supported large objects over 2GB until now.

It was apparently never necessary.

Fix broken-on-bigendian-machines byte-swapping functions, add missed update
of alternate regression expected file, improve error reporting, remove some
unnecessary code, sync testlo64.c with current testlo.c (it seems to have
been cloned from a very old copy of that), assorted cosmetic improvements.

Since postgres.h includes palloc.h, definitions that affect the latter
must be present before the former is included.

Per buildfarm results

We already had those, but they forced modules to spell out the function
bodies twice.  Eliminate some duplicates we had already grown.

Extracted from a somewhat larger patch from Andres Freund.

Phil Sorber and Thom Brown. Reviewed by Albe Laurenz.