most node types used in expression trees (both before and after parse
analysis).  This allows us to place an error cursor in many situations
where we formerly could not, because the information wasn't available
beyond the very first level of parse analysis.  There's a fair amount
of work still to be done to persuade individual ereport() calls to actually
include an error location, but this gets the initdb-forcing part of the
work out of the way; and the situation is already markedly better than
before for complaints about unimplementable implicit casts, such as
CASE and UNION constructs with incompatible alternative data types.
Per my proposal of a few days ago.

when its input is constant and the element coercion function is immutable
(or nonexistent, ie, binary-coercible case).  This is an oversight in the
8.3 implementation of ArrayCoerceExpr, and its result is that certain cases
involving IN or NOT IN with constants don't get optimized as they should be.
Per experimentation with an example from Ow Mun Heng.

Fix pg_dump docs to acknowledge that you can use -Z with plain text output.  Pointed out by Daniel Migowski.

warnings.  Peter did this for core awhile ago but evidently missed
contrib.

into nodes/nodeFuncs, so as to reduce wanton cross-subsystem #includes inside
the backend.  There's probably more that should be done along this line,
but this is a start anyway.

checks in ExecIndexBuildScanKeys() that were inadequate anyway: it's better
to verify the correct varno on an expected index key, not just reject OUTER
and INNER.

This makes the entire current contents of nodeFuncs.c dead code.  I'll be
replacing it with some other stuff later, as per recent proposal.

the window during which backends have no statistics file to read.

Devrim Gunduz.

"outage" of the statistics views.

This requires making the stats collector respond to SIGHUP, like the other
utility processes already did.

it possible to call them without specifying a column list.

Jaime Casanova

Bernd Helmle

at once and ItemPointers are collected in memory.

Remove tuple's killing by killtuple() if tuple was moved to another
page - it could produce unaceptable overhead.

Backpatch up to 8.1 because the bug was introduced by GiST's concurrency support.

Simon Riggs

1. -i option should run vacuum analyze only on pgbench tables, not *all*
tables in database.

2. pre-run cleanup step was DELETE FROM HISTORY then VACUUM HISTORY.
This is just a slow version of TRUNCATE HISTORY.

Simon Riggs

ignored because it can only be set at server start.

subqueries into the same thing you'd have gotten from IN (except always with
unknownEqFalse = true, so as to get the proper semantics for an EXISTS).
I believe this fixes the last case within CVS HEAD in which an EXISTS could
give worse performance than an equivalent IN subquery.

The tricky part of this is that if the upper query probes the EXISTS for only
a few rows, the hashing implementation can actually be worse than the default,
and therefore we need to make a cost-based decision about which way to use.
But at the time when the planner generates plans for subqueries, it doesn't
really know how many times the subquery will be executed.  The least invasive
solution seems to be to generate both plans and postpone the choice until
execution.  Therefore, in a query that has been optimized this way, EXPLAIN
will show two subplans for the EXISTS, of which only one will actually get
executed.

There is a lot more that could be done based on this infrastructure: in
particular it's interesting to consider switching to the hash plan if we start
out using the non-hashed plan but find a lot more upper rows going by than we
expected.  I have therefore left some minor inefficiencies in place, such as
initializing both subplans even though we will currently only use one.

backpatch to 8.3.X. Also fix markup that had just one bullet.

noncomplying cases to be future-proof.

to be used for SubLinks that are underneath a top-level OR clause.  Just as at
the very top level of WHERE, it's not necessary to be accurate about whether
the sublink returns FALSE or NULL, because either result has the same impact
on whether the WHERE will succeed.

carry typmod.

Per Microsoft knowledge base article Q201213, early versions of
Windows fail when we do this. Later versions of Windows appear
to have a higher limit than 64Kb, but do still fail on large
sends, so we unconditionally limit it for all versions.

Patch from Tom Lane.

< 	o -Allow an existing index to be marked as a table's primary key
> 	o Allow an existing index to be marked as a table's primary key

too noisy to be useful as of gcc 4.3, and we were never really doing
anything about inlining warnings anyway.

debug_print_plan to appear at LOG message level, not DEBUG1 as historically.
Make debug_pretty_print default to on.  Also, cause plans generated via
EXPLAIN to be subject to debug_print_plan.  This is all to make
debug_print_plan a reasonably comfortable substitute for the former behavior
of EXPLAIN VERBOSE.

!       o Allow an existing index to be marked as a table's primary key

While at it, mark a couple of items completed in 8.4:
!   o -Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid
      advancement starvation

! * -Improve performance of shared invalidation queue for multiple CPUs

Also remove a couple of obsolete assignments.

>
> * Fix all set-returning system functions so they support a wildcard
>   target list
>
>   SELECT * FROM pg_get_keywords() works but SELECT * FROM
>   pg_show_all_settings() does not.

eval_const_expressions will generally throw away anything that's ANDed with
constant FALSE, what we're left with given an example like

select * from tenk1 a where (unique1,0) in (select unique2,1 from tenk1 b);

is a cartesian product computation, which is really not acceptable.
This is a regression in CVS HEAD compared to previous releases, which were
able to notice the impossible join condition in this case --- though not in
some related cases that are also improved by this patch, such as

select * from tenk1 a left join tenk1 b on (a.unique1=b.unique2 and 0=1);

Fix by skipping evaluation of the appropriate side of the outer join in
cases where it's demonstrably unnecessary.

that we're considering pulling up.  I hadn't wanted to think through whether
that could work during the first pass at this stuff.  However, on closer
inspection it seems to be safe enough.

level of a JOIN/ON clause, not only at top level of WHERE.  (However, we
can't do this in an outer join's ON clause, unless the ANY/EXISTS refers
only to the nullable side of the outer join, so that it can effectively
be pushed down into the nullable side.)  Per request from Kevin Grittner.

In passing, fix a bug in the initial implementation of EXISTS pullup:
it would Assert if the EXIST's WHERE clause used a join alias variable.
Since we haven't yet flattened join aliases when this transformation
happens, it's necessary to include join relids in the computed set of
RHS relids.