Also, better mark section headings.

kdio@uenf.br

error.  This probably explains bug #2099 and could also account for
mysterious VACUUM hangups.

support for the dbf2pg contrib module.

The submitter created a patch which replaces the silent ignoring of -F
(when iconv support is disabled) with a meaningful warning.

Martin Pitt

that are the same as column names used in the function.

I have the problem, when building by MS-VC6.
An error occurs in the 8.1.0 present source codes.

nmake -f win32.mak
..\..\port\getaddrinfo.c(244) : error C2065: 'WSA_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY'
..\..\port\getaddrinfo.c(342) : error C2065: 'WSATYPE_NOT_FOUND'

This is used by winsock2.h. However, Construction of a windows base is
winsock.h.
Then, Since MinGW has special environment, this is right. but, it is not
found in VC6.
Furthermore, in getaddrinfo.c, IPV6-API is used by
LoadLibraryA("ws2_32");
Referring to of dll the external memory generates this violation by VC6
specification.

I considered whether the whole should have been converted into winsock2.
However, Now, DLL of MinGW creation operates wonderfully as it is.
That's right, it has pliability by replacement of simple DLL.
Then, I propose the system using winsock(non IPV6) in construction of
VC6.

Hiroshi Saito

_bt_checkkeys(), instead of checking it in the top-level nbtree.c routines
as formerly.  This saves a little bit of loop overhead, but more importantly
it lets us skip performing the index key comparisons for dead tuples.

checks, which were once needed because PageGetMaxOffsetNumber would
fail on empty pages, but are now just redundant.  Also, don't set up
local variables that aren't needed in the fast path --- most of the
time, we only need to advance offnum and not step across a page boundary.
Motivated by noticing _bt_step at the top of OProfile profile for a
pgbench run.

<   at initdb time or optionally later.
>   at initdb time or optionally later.  Consider O_SYNC when
>   O_DIRECT exists.

 - allow ~ in filenames
 - -8.2.1 now is '-' and '8.2.1' instead of '-8.2' '.' '3'
 - '.text' now is not a file

SLRU area.  The number of slots is still a compile-time constant (someday
we might want to change that), but at least it's a different constant for
each SLRU area.  Increase number of subtrans buffers to 32 based on
experimentation with a heavily subtrans-bashing test case, and increase
number of multixact member buffers to 16, since it's obviously silly for
it not to be at least twice the number of multixact offset buffers.

> * Add GUC variable to run a command on database panic or
>   smart/fast/immediate shutdown

file.  Backpatch to 8.1.X.

Paul Lindner

non-ascii                       convert to & escapes

the latest release notes there is a latin1 character that shouldn't be
there so I made a patch to fix that. This patch also fixes some old
entries that uses o instead of ö (which is also wrong but not as
bad as including a latin1 character in the sgml file).

Dennis Bj?rklund

Backpatch to 8.1.X.

lock, not exclusive, if the desired page is already in memory.  This can
be demonstrated to be a significant win on the pg_subtrans cache when there
is a large window of open transactions.  It should be useful for pg_clog
as well.  I didn't try to make GetMultiXactIdMembers() use the code, as
that would have taken some restructuring, and what with the local cache
for multixact contents it probably wouldn't really make a difference.
Per my recent proposal.

clauses even if it's an outer join.  This is a corner case since such
clauses could only arise from weird OUTER JOIN ON conditions, but worth
fixing.  Per example from Ron at cheapcomplexdevices.com.

Win32.

Backpatch to 8.1.X.

on libintl which may or may not provide what we need.  Make a few marginal
cleanups to ensure this works.  Andrew Dunstan and Tom Lane.

suggestion from Bruce.

 - improve file and path recognition
 - fix misspeling
 - improve tag recognition

incorrect implementation of argument reordering, arbitrary limit of output
size for sprintf and fprintf, willingness to access more bytes than "%.Ns"
specification allows, wrong formatting of LONGLONG_MIN, various field-padding
bugs and omissions.  I believe it now accurately implements a subset of
the Single Unix Spec requirements (remaining unimplemented features are
documented, too).  Bruce Momjian and Tom Lane.