direction of writing triggers in a procedural language, rather than C.
Per discussion.

of client_min_messages (fatal + panic) are valid and also fixes a slight
issue with how psql tried to display error messages that aren't sent to
the client.

We often tell people to ignore errors in response to requests for things
like "drop if exists", but there's no good way to completely hide this
without upping client_min_messages past ERROR.  When running a file like

SET client_min_messages TO 'FATAL';

DROP TABLE doesntexist;

with "psql -f filename" you get an error prefix of
"psql:/home/username/filename:3" even though there is no error message to
prefix because it isn't sent to the client.

Kris Jurka

I'm not clear on what the double-backslash idea was intended to fix,
but it breaks at least mingw GNU Make.  Per report from Thomas Hallgren.

This makes the error messages for PREPARE TRANSACTION, COMMIT PREPARED
etc. match the docs, which talk about "transaction identifier" not
"gid" or "global transaction identifier".

Steve Woodcock

etc. match the docs, which talk about "transaction identifier" not
"gid" or "global transaction identifier".

Steve Woodcock

applications that use FILE pointers.

WAL and the interaction of the new full_page_writes parameter with PITR.

The too-small WAL first sect1 has been merged with the one following
sect1 for clarity.

Some minor comments have been made in the WAL config section also.

Passes SGML make and proofread for typos.
Files changed:
patching file doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
patching file doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
patching file doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml

Simon Riggs

that is too fragile.

syntax checking to plpgsql: check_sql_expr() wasn't being called by
make_select_stmt(), so that there was no SQL syntax check for SELECT
statements.

that is protected by a spinlock must be volatile, per recent discussion.

> * Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name
>
>   PQfnumber() should never have been doing lowercasing, but historically
>   it has so we need a way to prevent it
>

make_restrictinfo_from_bitmapqual.  The likelihood of finding duplicates
seems much less than in the AND-subclause case, and the cost much higher,
because OR lists with hundreds or even thousands of subclauses are not
uncommon.  Per discussion with Ilia Kantor and andrew@supernews.

< * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
<
<   One idea is to lowercase all identifiers except those that are
<   surrounded by quotes.
<

the wrong buffer dirty when trying to kill a dead index entry that's on
a page after the one it started on.  No risk of data corruption, just
inefficiency, but still a bug.

protected data structures and not using a volatile pointer for same.

pointers, to ensure that compilers won't rearrange accesses to occur
while we're not holding the buffer header spinlock.  It's probably
not necessary to mark volatile in every single place in bufmgr.c,
but better safe than sorry.  Per trouble report from Kevin Grittner.

Andrew Dunstan

<
< * Add code to detect an SMP machine and handle spinlocks accordingly
<   from distributted.net, http://www1.distributed.net/source,
<   in client/common/cpucheck.cpp
<
<   On SMP machines, it is possible that locks might be released shortly,
<   while on non-SMP machines, the backend should sleep so the process
<   holding the lock can complete and release it.

< 	o %Add dumping of comments on composite type columns
< 	o %Add dumping of comments on index columns
< 	o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
> 	o %Add dumping of comments on index columns and composite type columns
604a603
> 	o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode

< 	o %Replace crude DELETE FROM method of pg_dumpall --clean for
<           cleaning of roles with separate DROP commands
608a607
>

<
> 	o Allow pg_dump --clean to drop roles that own objects or have
> 	  privileges

< * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name?
> * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
>
>   One idea is to lowercase all identifiers except those that are
>   surrounded by quotes.
>

> 	o Add options like pg_restore -l and -L to pg_dump

> 	o Allow selection of individual object(s) of all types, not just
> 	  tables
> 	o In a selective dump, allow dumping of an object and all its
> 	  dependencies

must commit *after* autoconf, not before

update to beta3 before tagging ...