Rather than considering this result as meaning "unknown", report LONG_MAX.
This won't change what superusers can set max_stack_depth to, but it will
cause InitializeGUCOptions() to set the built-in default to 2MB not 100kB.
The latter seems like a fairly unreasonable interpretation of "infinity".
Per my investigation of odd buildfarm results as well as an old complaint
from Heikki.

Since this should persuade all the buildfarm animals to use a reasonable
stack depth setting during "make check", revert previous patch that dumbed
down a recursive regression test to only 5 levels.

I'm mainly interested in finding out what it is on buildfarm machines,
but including the active value in the message seems like good practice
in any case.  Add the info to the HINT, not the ERROR string, so as not
to change the regression tests' expected output.

Dirk Heinrichs

The nominally equivalent call appendStringInfo(buf, "%s", str) can be
significantly slower when str is large.  In particular, the former usage in
EVALUATE_MESSAGE led to O(N^2) behavior when collecting a large number of
context lines, as I found out while testing recursive functions.  The other
changes are just neatnik-ism and seem unlikely to save anything meaningful,
but a cycle shaved is a cycle earned.

Per my recent proposal, get rid of all the direct inspection of indexes
and manual generation of paths in planagg.c.  Instead, set up
EquivalenceClasses for the aggregate argument expressions, and let the
regular path generation logic deal with creating paths that can satisfy
those sort orders.  This makes planagg.c a bit more visible to the rest
of the planner than it was originally, but the approach is basically a lot
cleaner than before.  A major advantage of doing it this way is that we get
MIN/MAX optimization on inheritance trees (using MergeAppend of indexscans)
practically for free, whereas in the old way we'd have had to add a whole
lot more duplicative logic.

One small disadvantage of this approach is that MIN/MAX aggregates can no
longer exploit partial indexes having an "x IS NOT NULL" predicate, unless
that restriction or something that implies it is specified in the query.
The previous implementation was able to use the added "x IS NOT NULL"
condition as an extra predicate proof condition, but in this version we
rely entirely on indexes that are considered usable by the main planning
process.  That seems a fair tradeoff for the simplicity and functionality
gained.

Some buildfarm members fail the test with the original depth of 10 levels,
apparently because they are running at the minimum max_stack_depth setting
of 100kB and using ~ 10k per recursion level.  While it might be
interesting to try to figure out why they're eating so much stack, it isn't
likely that any fix for that would be back-patchable.  So just change the
test to recurse only 5 levels.  The extra levels don't prove anything
correctness-wise anyway.

Like plperl and unlike plpgsql, there isn't any cached state that could
depend on exactly which relation the trigger is being fired for.  So we
can use just one hash entry for all relations, which might save a little
something.

Alex Hunsaker

A proposed patch will require GNU make 3.80 or newer.  We will let this patch
run for a while to see how much damage that would do to the buildfarm.

It was reporting that these were fully indexed (hence cheap), when of
course they're the exact opposite of that.  I'm not certain if the case
would arise in practice, since a clauseless semijoin is hard to produce
in SQL, but if it did happen we'd make some dumb decisions.

Problem reported, and cause identified, by Hernan Gonzalez.

We failed to record any dependency on the underlying table for an index
declared like "create index i on t (foo(t.*))".  This would create trouble
if the table were dropped without previously dropping the index.  To fix,
simplify some overly-cute code in index_create(), accepting the possibility
that sometimes the whole-table dependency will be redundant.  Also document
this hazard in dependency.c.  Per report from Kevin Grittner.

In passing, prevent a core dump in pg_get_indexdef() if the index's table
can't be found.  I came across this while experimenting with Kevin's
example.  Not sure it's a real issue when the catalogs aren't corrupt, but
might as well be cautious.

Back-patch to all supported versions.

Use bool as type for booleans instead of int.
Do not implicitely cast size_t to int.
Make the compiler stop complaining about unused variables by adding an empty statement.

rather than 0/0, so that we can safely use 0/0 as an invalid value. This is a
more future-proof fix for the corner-case bug in streaming replication that
was fixed yesterday. We had a similar corner-case bug with log/seg 0/0 back in
February as well. Avoiding 0/0 as a valid value should prevent bugs like that
in the future. Per Tom Lane's idea.

Back-patch to 9.0. Since this only affects bootstrapping, it makes no
difference to existing installations. We don't need to worry about the
bug in existing installations, because if you've managed to get past the
initial base backup already, you won't hit the bug in the future either.

and related routines.

We already had a redundant FunctionCallInfoData struct in FuncExprState,
but were using that copy only in set-returning-function cases, to avoid
keeping function evaluation state in the expression tree for the benefit
of plpgsql's "simple expression" logic.  But of course that didn't work
anyway.  Given the recent fixes in plpgsql there is no need to have two
separate behaviors here.  Getting rid of the local FunctionCallInfoData
structs should make things a little faster (because we don't need to do
InitFunctionCallInfoData each time), and it also makes for a noticeable
reduction in stack space consumption during recursive calls.

streaming replication. We used log/seg 0/0 to indicate that no WAL segments
have been removed since startup, but 0/0 is a valid value for the very first
WAL segment after initdb. To make that disambiguous, store
(latest removed WAL segment + 1) in the global variable.

Per report from Matt Chesler, also reproduced by Greg Smith.

As noted by Jan Urbanski, this flag is in fact needed to ensure that the
function's input/result conversion functions are set up as expected.

Add a regression test to discourage anyone from making same mistake
in future.

The core of this patch is hash_array() and associated typcache
infrastructure, which works just about exactly like the existing support
for array comparison.

In addition I did some work to ensure that the planner won't think that an
array type is hashable unless its element type is hashable, and similarly
for sorting.  This includes adding a datatype parameter to op_hashjoinable
and op_mergejoinable, and adding an explicit "hashable" flag to
SortGroupClause.  The lack of a cross-check on the element type was a
pre-existing bug in mergejoin support --- but it didn't matter so much
before, because if you couldn't sort the element type there wasn't any good
alternative to failing anyhow.  Now that we have the alternative of hashing
the array type, there are cases where we can avoid a failure by being picky
at the planner stage, so it's time to be picky.

The issue of exactly how to combine the per-element hash values to produce
an array hash is still open for discussion, but the rest of this is pretty
solid, so I'll commit it as-is.

Per C standard, these are semantically the same thing; but saying NULL
when you mean NULL is good for readability.

Marti Raudsepp, per results of INRIA's Coccinelle.

Now that we're expecting a mergeclause's left_ec/right_ec to persist from
the initial assignments, we can't just blithely zero these out when
transforming such a clause in adjust_appendrel_attrs.  But really it should
be okay to keep the parent's values, since a child table's derived Var
ought to be equivalent to the parent Var for all EquivalenceClass purposes.
(Indeed, I'm wondering whether we couldn't find a way to dispense with
add_child_rel_equivalences altogether.  But this is wrong in any case.)

Zoltan Boszormenyi exhibited a test case in which planning time was
dominated by construction of EquivalenceClasses and PathKeys that had no
actual relevance to the query (and in fact got discarded immediately).
This happened because we generated PathKeys describing the sort ordering of
every index on every table in the query, and only after that checked to see
if the sort ordering was relevant.  The EC/PK construction code is O(N^2)
in the number of ECs, which is all right for the intended number of such
objects, but it gets out of hand if there are ECs for lots of irrelevant
indexes.

To fix, twiddle the handling of mergeclauses a little bit to ensure that
every interesting EC is created before we begin path generation.  (This
doesn't cost anything --- in fact I think it's a bit cheaper than before
--- since we always eventually created those ECs anyway.)  Then, if an
index column can't be found in any pre-existing EC, we know that that sort
ordering is irrelevant for the query.  Instead of creating a useless EC,
we can just not build a pathkey for the index column in the first place.
The index will still be considered if it's useful for non-order-related
reasons, but we will think of its output as unsorted.

FROM STDIN in PL/pgSQL. We alread did this for dynamic EXECUTE statements,
ie. "EXECUTE 'COMMIT'", but not otherwise.

Josh Kupershmidt

The previous wording might have suggested that \du only showed login roles
and \dg only group roles, but that is no longer the case.

proposed by Josh Kupershmidt

Instead of using ExecPrepareExpr, call ExecInitExpr.  The net change here
is that we don't apply expression_planner() to the expression tree.  There
is no need to do so, because that tree is extracted from a fully planned
plancache entry, so all the needed work is already done.  This reduces
the setup costs by about a factor of 2 according to some simple tests.
Oversight noted while fooling around with the simple-expression code for
previous fix.

In general, expression execution state trees aren't re-entrantly usable,
since functions can store private state information in them.
For efficiency reasons, plpgsql tries to cache and reuse state trees for
"simple" expressions.  It can get away with that most of the time, but it
can fail if the state tree is dirty from a previous failed execution (as
in an example from Alvaro) or is being used recursively (as noted by me).

Fix by tracking whether a state tree is in use, and falling back to the
"non-simple" code path if so.  This results in a pretty considerable speed
hit when the non-simple path is taken, but the available alternatives seem
even more unpleasant because they add overhead in the simple path.  Per
idea from Heikki.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

This was only used while the final release notes for 9.0 were being prepared.
The alpha release notes are now in release-9.1.sgml.

This reverts commit 915116bc.

Per discussion, the previous formula was in fact correct.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2010-10/msg00038.php

Along the way, clarify that sdparm can be used on Linux as well as FreeBSD.

Try to make the code look self-consistent again, so it doesn't confuse
future developers.

after accepting a connection fails, and the server is compiled with GSSAPI
support. Report and patch by Alexander V. Chernikov, bug #5731.

Original patch failed to include new exclusive states in a switch that
needed to include them; and also was guilty of very fuzzy thinking
about how to handle error cases.  Per bug #5729 from Alan Choi.

Josh Kupershmidt

KaiGai Kohei, with minor cleanup of the comments by me.

- Avoid closing stdin, since we didn't open it.  Previously multiple
inclusions of stdin would be terminated with a single quit, now a separate
quit is needed for each invocation. Previous behavior also accessed stdin
after it was fclose()d, which is undefined behavior per ANSI C.

- Properly restore pset.inputfile, since the caller expects to be able
to free that memory.

Marti Raudsepp

WAL-logged. Make the notice about the lack of WAL-logging more visible by
making it a <caution>. Also remove the false statement from hot standby
caveats section that hash indexes are not used during hot standby.