section makes a little more sense.

corrections.  Not sure why these were not in CVS.  Researching.

fixes.  Not sure how these weren't comitted before.

pending decision on exactly what will happen with
contrib/tsearch2 now that it's in core.

namespace isn't necessarily first in the search path (there could be implicit
schemas ahead of it).  Examples are

test=# set search_path TO s1;

test=# create view pg_timezone_names as select * from pg_timezone_names();
ERROR:  "pg_timezone_names" is already a view

test=# create table pg_class (f1 int primary key);
ERROR:  permission denied: "pg_class" is a system catalog

You'd expect these commands to create the requested objects in s1, since
names beginning with pg_ aren't supposed to be reserved anymore.  What is
happening is that we create the requested base table and then execute
additional commands (here, CREATE RULE or CREATE INDEX), and that code is
passed the same RangeVar that was in the original command.  Since that
RangeVar has schemaname = NULL, the secondary commands think they should do a
path search, and that means they find system catalogs that are implicitly in
front of s1 in the search path.

This is perilously close to being a security hole: if the secondary command
failed to apply a permission check then it'd be possible for unprivileged
users to make schema modifications to system catalogs.  But as far as I can
find, there is no code path in which a check doesn't occur.  Which makes it
just a weird corner-case bug for people who are silly enough to want to
name their tables the same as a system catalog.

The relevant code has changed quite a bit since 8.2, which means this patch
wouldn't work as-is in the back branches.  Since it's a corner case no one
has reported from the field, I'm not going to bother trying to back-patch.

days that was obsolete the moment we had IN (SELECT ...) capability.
It's arguably a security hole since it applied no permissions check to
the table it searched, and since it was never documented anywhere,
removing it seems more appropriate than fixing it.

not all that exciting when the system catalogs are readable by all,
but some people try to lock them down, and would not like this sort of
end run ...

and pg_tablespace_size to superusers.  Perhaps we could weaken the first
case to just require SELECT privilege, but that doesn't work for the
other cases, so use ownership as the common concept.

While it's not clear that TID linkage info is of any great use to a
nefarious user, it's certainly unexpected that these functions wouldn't
insist on read privileges.

but no permissions check at all is certainly no good.)  Clean up usage
of some deprecated APIs.

but no permissions check at all is certainly no good.)  Clean up usage
of some deprecated APIs.

usage of RelationNameGetTupleDesc().

exposing user data to others, and clean up usage of deprecated APIs.

sub-select returns zero rows.  Per complaint from Jens Schicke.  Since this
is more in the nature of a definition change than a bug, not back-patched.

but just hardwire the specified timezone database path into the executable.
Per discussion, this avoids some packaging disadvantages of using a
symlink.

relcache entry after having heap_close'd it.  This could lead to misbehavior
if a relcache flush wiped out the cache entry meanwhile.  In 8.2 there is a
very real risk of CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY using the wrong relid for locking
and waiting purposes.  I think the bug is only cosmetic in 8.0 and 8.1,
because their transgression is limited to using RelationGetRelationName(rel)
in an ereport message immediately after heap_close, and there's no way (except
with special debugging options) for a cache flush to occur in that interval.
Not quite sure that it's cosmetic in 7.4, but seems best to patch anyway.

Found by trying to run the regression tests with CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS enabled.
Maybe we should try to do that on a regular basis --- it's awfully slow,
but perhaps some fast buildfarm machine could do it once in awhile.

of redundant sub-selects.  initdb not forced, since this is just a
cosmetic change, but the new code won't show up till you do one.

(FD_SETSIZE - 10) rather than a hardwired number.

minor rewording, some markup fixups.  Lots left to do here ...

Minor other cleanups.

russian_stem, etc.  Per discussion.

- ispell initialization crashed on empty dictionary file
- ispell initialization crashed on affix file with prefixes but no suffixes
- stop words file was run through pg_verify_mbstr, with database
  encoding, but it's supposed to be UTF-8; similar bug for synonym files
- bunch of comments added, typos fixed, and other cleanup

Introduced consistent encoding checking/conversion of data read from tsearch
configuration files, by doing this in a single t_readline() subroutine
(replacing direct usages of fgets).  Cleaned up API for readstopwords too.

Heikki Linnakangas

padded encryption scheme.  Formerly it would try to access res[(unsigned) -1],
which resulted in core dumps on 64-bit machines, and was certainly trouble
waiting to happen on 32-bit machines (though in at least the known case
it was harmless because that byte would be overwritten after return).
Per report from Ken Colson; fix by Marko Kreen.

the same amount of memory in ErrorContext as standard logs.

Transactional Information Systems by Gerhard Weikum, Kaufmann

initdb.  We should create all the standard dictionaries even though
some of them may not work in template1's encoding.  Per Teodor.