preference for filling pages out-of-order tends to confuse the sanity checks
in md.c, as per report from Balazs Nagy in bug #2737.  The fix is to ensure
that the smgr-level code always has the same idea of the logical EOF as the
hash index code does, by using ReadBuffer(P_NEW) where we are adding a single
page to the end of the index, and using smgrextend() to reserve a large batch
of pages when creating a new splitpoint.  The patch is a bit ugly because it
avoids making any changes in md.c, which seems the most prudent approach for a
backpatchable beta-period fix.  After 8.3 development opens, I'll take a look
at a cleaner but more invasive patch, in particular getting rid of the now
unnecessary hack to allow reading beyond EOF in mdread().

Backpatch as far as 7.4.  The bug likely exists in 7.3 as well, but because
of the magnitude of the 7.3-to-7.4 changes in hash, the later-version patch
doesn't even begin to apply.  Given the other known bugs in the 7.3-era hash
code, it does not seem worth trying to develop a separate patch for 7.3.

people from trying notations like '10.6/16', which is accepted but does
not mean what you probably think.  Per example from Paul Forgey.

cases where we already hold the desired lock "indirectly", either via
membership in a MultiXact or because the lock was originally taken by a
different subtransaction of the current transaction.  These cases must be
accounted for to avoid needless deadlocks and/or inappropriate replacement of
an exclusive lock with a shared lock.  Per report from Clarence Gardner and
subsequent investigation.

that discusses CVS. Remove the recommendation to use cvs 1.10. Remove
discussion of alleged CVSup binaries on postgresql.org, because they
have not existed for several years. Remove discussion of how to
build cvsup from source because the existing text is outdated, and
more accurate information is available from the CVSup homepage.

than new sections, so they appear all on the same web page.

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>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01527.php

on an attempt to create the second interpreter if this is not supported by
the perl installation. Per recent -hackers discussion.

consistently capitalize the content of the "Description" column but do
not include a terminating period, as is the convention elsewhere in the
docs. Also, remove the "References" column from catalog that do not
have any referencing columns, for the sake of brevity. Make various
other SGML and grammar fixes.

-O3 or higher (presumably because it inlines more things).  Per gripe
from Mark Mielke.

of an index on a serial column, rather than the name of the associated
sequence.  Fallout from recent changes in dependency setup for serials.
Per bug #2732 from Basil Evseenko.

Theo Kramer.

the database.  xfunc.sgml was already pretty definite on the point, but
it doesn't hurt to make it clear here too.

added to information_schema (per a SQL2003 addition).  The original coding
failed if a referenced column participated in more than one pg_constraint
entry.  Also, it did not work if an FK relied directly on a unique index
without any constraint syntactic sugar --- this case is outside the SQL spec,
but PG has always supported it, so it's reasonable for our information_schema
to handle it too.  Per bug#2750 from Stephen Haberman.

Although this patch changes the initial catalog contents, I didn't force
initdb.  Any beta3 testers who need the fix can install it via CREATE OR
REPLACE VIEW, so forcing them to initdb seems an unnecessary imposition.

for NULL-ness of function arguments is wasted code.

accurately: we have to distinguish the effects of the join's own ON
clauses from the effects of pushed-down clauses.  Failing to do so
was a quick hack long ago, but it's time to be smarter.  Per example
from Thomas H.

30 seconds instead of retrying forever.  Also modify xlog.c so that if
it fails to rename an old xlog segment up to a future slot, it will
unlink the segment instead.  Per discussion of bug #2712, in which it
became apparent that Windows can handle unlinking a file that's being
held open, but not renaming it.

The former coding relied on the actual allocated size of the last block,
which made it behave strangely if the first allocation in a context was
larger than ALLOC_CHUNK_LIMIT: subsequent allocations would be referenced
to that and not to the intended series of block sizes.  Noted while
studying a memory wastage gripe from Tatsuo.

more space is needed, instead of incrementing by a fixed amount; the old
method wastes lots of space and time when the ultimate size is large.
Per gripe from Tatsuo.

text_to_array(): they all had O(N^2) behavior on long input strings in
multibyte encodings, because of repeated rescanning of the input text to
identify substrings whose positions/lengths were computed in characters
instead of bytes.  Fix by tracking the current source position as a char
pointer as well as a character-count.  Also avoid some unnecessary palloc
operations.  text_to_array() also leaked memory intracall due to failure
to pfree temporary strings.  Per gripe from Tatsuo Ishii.

a connectivity error occurred while executing one of the queries
for "\d <table>". Not serious, but still worth fixing. Patch from
Brendan Jurd.