platform-specific spellings of /dev/null.  But one should be enough, so
settle on DEVNULL.

header file.  SunOS 4 is probably broken anyway, but this item stuck out as
completely weird.

to the gettext domain name, to simplify parallel installations.

Also, rename set_text_domain() to pg_bindtextdomain(), because that is what
it does.

right child if it doesn't need to.  This saves some miniscule number
of cycles, but the ulterior motive is to avoid an optimization bug
known to exist in SCO's C compiler (and perhaps others?)

composite column.  Might help cut down on future questions...

replication patch needs a signal, but we've already used SIGUSR1 and
SIGUSR2 in normal backends. This patch allows reusing SIGUSR1 for that,
and for other purposes too if the need arises.

of autovacuum_max_workers parameter is.

Per discussion with Alvaro.

where no function stats entries exist.  Partial response to Pavel's
observation that small VACUUM operations are noticeably slower in CVS HEAD
than 8.3.

with warning against setting it too high.

form a join and that case doesn't have anything to join to.  (We could
probably make it work if we didn't pull up the subquery, but it seems to
me that the case isn't worth extra code.)  Per report from Greg Stark.

SGML-escaping.

Plus some makefile cleanup.

part of a patch from Richard Evans

Robert Haas

SizeOfPageHeaderData, like PageGetContents does. Per report by Pavan
Deolasee.

appendix on key words.  catdesc was originally intended as computer-readable,
but since we ended up adding catcode, we can have more elaborate descriptions.

Pavel Stehule, with some tweaks by Peter Eisentraut

non-writable large objects need to have their snapshots registered on the
transaction resowner, not the current portal's, because it must persist until
the large object is closed (which the portal does not).  Also, ensure that the
serializable snapshot is recorded by the transaction resource owner too, even
when a subtransaction has changed the current resource owner before
serializable is taken.

Per bug reports from Pavan Deolasee.

make the code do what the comment says...

the visibility map patch that because autovacuum always sets
VacuumStmt->freeze_min_age, visibility map was never used for autovacuum,
only for manually launched vacuums. This patch introduces a new scan_all
field to VacuumStmt, indicating explicitly whether the visibility map
should be used, or the whole relation should be scanned, to advance
relfrozenxid. Anti-wraparound vacuums still need to scan all pages.

coverage output.

Kris Jurka

it's connection. This is required for applications that unload
the libpq library (such as PHP) in which case we'd otherwise
have pointers to these functions when they no longer exist.

This needs a bit more testing before we can consider a backpatch,
so not doing that yet.

In passing, remove unused functions in backend/libpq.

Bruce Momjian and Magnus Hagander, per report and analysis
by Russell Smith.

heap page, where a set bit indicates that all tuples on the page are
visible to all transactions, and the page therefore doesn't need
vacuuming. It is stored in a new relation fork.

Lazy vacuum uses the visibility map to skip pages that don't need
vacuuming. Vacuum is also responsible for setting the bits in the map.
In the future, this can hopefully be used to implement index-only-scans,
but we can't currently guarantee that the visibility map is always 100%
up-to-date.

In addition to the visibility map, there's a new PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag on
each heap page, also indicating that all tuples on the page are visible to
all transactions. It's important that this flag is kept up-to-date. It
is also used to skip visibility tests in sequential scans, which gives a
small performance gain on seqscans.

wait for the previous instead of the new file to be archived.

Based on patch by Simon Riggs.

gin_cmp_tslexeme and gin_cmp_prefix functions. Should shave off a few
cycles from GIN operations.

the * character at the beginning of a pattern, and it does not match
subdomains.

Since this means we no longer need fnmatch, remove the imported implementation
from port, along with the autoconf check for it.

outer join clauses.  Given, say,
	... from a left join b on a.a1 = b.b1 where a.a1 = 42;
we'll deduce a clause b.b1 = 42 and then mark the original join clause
redundant (we can't remove it completely for reasons I don't feel like
squeezing into this log entry).  However the original implementation of
that wasn't bulletproof, because clause_selectivity() wouldn't honor
this_selec if given nonzero varRelid --- which in practice meant that
it worked as desired *except* when considering index scan quals.  Which
resulted in bogus underestimation of the size of the indexscan result for
an inner indexscan in an outer join, and consequently a possibly bad
choice of indexscan vs. bitmap scan.  Fix by introducing an explicit test
into clause_selectivity().  Also, to make sure we don't trigger that test
in corner cases, change the convention to be that this_selec > 1, not
this_selec = 1, means it's been marked redundant.  Per trouble report from
Scara Maccai.

Back-patch to 8.2, where the problem was introduced.

is treated like a non-digit separator. This fixes the inconsistency in
examples like:

to_timestamp('2008-01-2', 'YYYY-MM-DD') -- didn't work

and

to_timestamp('2008-1-02', 'YYYY-MM-DD') -- did work

toasted values, since those could get dropped once the cursor's transaction
is over.  Per bug #4553 from Andrew Gierth.

Back-patch as far as 8.1.  The bug actually exists back to 7.4 when holdable
cursors were introduced, but this patch won't work before 8.1 without
significant adjustments.  Given the lack of field complaints, it doesn't seem
worth the work (and risk of introducing new bugs) to try to make a patch for
the older branches.