RESET SESSION, RESET PLANS, and RESET TEMP are now DISCARD ALL,
DISCARD PLANS, and DISCARD TEMP, respectively. This is to avoid
confusion with the pre-existing RESET variants: the DISCARD
commands are not actually similar to RESET. Patch from Marko
Kreen, with some minor editorialization.

like Slony can figure out which options were enabled in the build.

Dave Page

Dave Page

Jun Kuwamura

   <H3 id="item3.6">3.6) What is the upgrade process for
   PostgreSQL?</H3>

to reference both versioning and specific upgrade instructions.

errorcode 298 when unlocking a semaphore more than once.

Per report from Marcin Waldowski.

Per buildfarm member mastodon.

thanks Marko Kreen

> 	o -Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them

(it's so nice to have a buildfarm member that actively rejects naked
uses of strcasecmp).  This coding is still pretty awful, though, since
it's going to be O(N^2) in the number of guc variables.  May I direct
your attention to bsearch?

are mostly excluded by constraints: do the CE test a bit earlier to save
some adjust_appendrel_attrs() work on excluded children, and arrange to
use array indexing rather than rt_fetch() to fetch RTEs in the main body
of the planner.  The latter is something I'd wanted to do for awhile anyway,
but seeing list_nth_cell() as 35% of the runtime gets one's attention.

Joachim Wieland

are removed from the configuration file.

Joachim Wieland

library.  New configure option --with-ossp-uuid to activate.

will be excluded by constraint exclusion anyway.  Greg Stark

child attnums are the same, before it grovels through each and every child
column looking for a name match.  Saves some time in large inheritance trees,
per example from Greg.

values: don't throw away perfectly good hash bits, and increase the shift
distances so as to provide more separation in the common case where some of
the key values are small integers (and so their hashes are too, because
hashfunc.c doesn't try all that hard).  This reduces the runtime of
SearchCatCache by a factor of 4 in an example provided by Greg Stark,
in which the planner spends a whole lot of time searching the two-key
STATRELATT cache.  It seems unlikely to hurt in other cases, but maybe
we could do even better?

when a relation is opened multiple times in the same transaction.  This is
particularly useful for system catalogs, which we may heap_open or index_open
many times in a transaction, and it doesn't really cost anything extra even
if the rel is touched but once.  Motivated by study of an example from Greg
Stark, in which pgstat_initstats() accounted for an unreasonably large
fraction of the runtime.

In very large queries this accounts for a noticeable fraction of
planning time.  Per an example from Greg Stark.

multiple releases.

checklist.

Security: CVE-2007-2138

This is needed to allow a security-definer function to set a truly secure
value of search_path.  Without it, a malicious user can use temporary objects
to execute code with the privileges of the security-definer function.  Even
pushing the temp schema to the back of the search path is not quite good
enough, because a function or operator at the back of the path might still
capture control from one nearer the front due to having a more exact datatype
match.  Hence, disable searching the temp schema altogether for functions and
operators.

Security: CVE-2007-2138

failed (due to lock conflicts or out-of-space).  We might have already
extended the index's filesystem EOF before failing, causing the EOF to be
beyond what the metapage says is the last used page.  Hence the invariant
maintained by the code needs to be "EOF is at or beyond last used page",
not "EOF is exactly the last used page".  Problem was created by my patch
of 2006-11-19 that attempted to repair bug #2737.  Since that was
back-patched to 7.4, this needs to be as well.  Per report and test case
from Vlastimil Krejcir.

pass-by-reference data type and the RETURN statement is within an EXCEPTION
block.  Bug introduced by my fix of 2007-01-28 to use per-subtransaction
ExprContexts/EStates; since that wasn't back-patched into older branches,
only 8.2 and HEAD are affected.  Per report from Gary Winslow.