administrator-scheduled vacuums.

patch from  ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>

Jun Kuwamura

who reported it privately to me.

than two independent bits (one of which was never used in heap pages anyway,
or at least hadn't been in a very long time).  This gives us flexibility to
add the HOT notions of redirected and dead item pointers without requiring
anything so klugy as magic values of lp_off and lp_len.  The state values
are chosen so that for the states currently in use (pre-HOT) there is no
change in the physical representation.

so that invalidly encoded data cannot enter the database by these means.

Jeremy Drake.

Per buildfarm and Teodor.

was removed.

switch, viz '-fno-alias'.  Since we have a separate code path here
anyway, it's just as easy to cooperate.

recover from elog(ERROR).  Problem was created by introduction of hash seq
search tracking awhile back, and affects all branches that have bgwriter;
in HEAD the disease has snuck into autovacuum and walwriter too.  (Not sure
that the latter two use hash_seq_search at the moment, but surely they might
someday.)  Per report from Sergey Koposov.

dynahash.c.  Sergey Koposov's current open problem shows the possible
usefulness of this, and it doesn't add much code.

(ts_rank_cd). Use palloc'ed array in ranking instead of flag.

Backpatch is needed for contrib version.

Rename synonym.syn.sample and thesaurs.ths.sample to
synonym_sample.syn and thesaurs_sample.ths accordingly to be able to use they
in regression test.

Ispell dictionary uses synthetic simple dictionary files.

It will be mush better to reimplement ts_debug in C (instead of SQL as now),
but it's planned for the future.

* Defined new struct WordEntryPosVector that holds a uint16 length and a
variable size array of WordEntries. This replaces the previous
convention of a variable size uint16 array, with the first element
implying the length. WordEntryPosVector has the same layout in memory,
but is more readable in source code. The POSDATAPTR and POSDATALEN
macros are still used, though it would now be more readable to access
the fields in WordEntryPosVector directly.

* Removed needfree field from DocRepresentation. It was always set to false.

* Miscellaneous other commenting and refactoring

for consistency with other column names such as in pg_stat_database.

transaction, unless rolled back or overridden by a SET clause for the same
variable attached to a surrounding function call.  Per discussion, these
seem the best semantics.  Note that this is an INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: in 8.0
through 8.2, SET LOCAL's effects disappeared at subtransaction commit
(leading to behavior that made little sense at the SQL level).

I took advantage of the opportunity to rewrite and simplify the GUC variable
save/restore logic a little bit.  The old idea of a "tentative" value is gone;
it was a hangover from before we had a stack.  Also, we no longer need a stack
entry for every nesting level, but only for those in which a variable's value
actually changed.

database-wide editions.

Per report from bitsandbytes88 <at> hotmail.com and subsequent discussion.

vacuum, instead of waiting till commit.

Add tsearch subdirectory is added to Makefile to allow
compile  custom tsearch dictionary as an external module.

In most cases it cause because of unneeded lowercasing of flags.

Per experiment with regression checks with ispell dictionary.

an exclusive lock on the table at this point, which we want to release as soon
as possible.  This is called in the phase of lazy vacuum where we truncate the
empty pages at the end of the table.

An alternative solution would be to lower the vacuum delay settings before
starting the truncating phase, but this doesn't work very well in autovacuum
due to the autobalancing code (which can cause other processes to change our
cost delay settings).  This case could be considered in the balancing code, but
it is simpler this way.

name to PushFunction type definition.

Per suggestion by Tome Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Apparently it's a bug I introduced when I refactored spell.c to use the
readline function for reading and recoding the input file. I didn't
notice that some calls to STRNCMP used the non-lowercased version of the
input line.

Fix grammatical errors in its description.

and in passing, fix some bogosities dating from the custom_variable_classes
patch.  Fix guc-file.l to correctly check changes in custom_variable_classes
that are attempted concurrently with additions/removals of custom variables,
and don't allow the new setting to be applied in advance of checking it.
Clean up messy and undocumented situation for string variables with NULL
boot_val.  Fix DefineCustomVariable functions to initialize boot_val
correctly.  Prevent find_option from inserting bogus placeholders for custom
variables that are simply inquired about rather than being set.

for pg_regress, via --temp-config option. Pick this up in the make file
via TEMP_CONFIG setting.

ReadNewTransactionId from GetSnapshotData --- with a "latestCompletedXid"
variable that is updated during transaction commit or abort.  Since
latestCompletedXid is written only in places that had to lock ProcArrayLock
exclusively anyway, and is read only in places that had to lock ProcArrayLock
shared anyway, it adds no new locking requirements to the system despite being
cluster-wide.  Moreover, removing ReadNewTransactionId from snapshot
acquisition eliminates the need to take both XidGenLock and ProcArrayLock at
the same time.  Since XidGenLock is sometimes held across I/O this can be a
significant win.  Some preliminary benchmarking suggested that this patch has
no effect on average throughput but can significantly improve the worst-case
transaction times seen in pgbench.  Concept by Florian Pflug, implementation
by Tom Lane.

no need for serialization against snapshot-taking because the xact doesn't
affect anyone else's snapshot anyway.  Per discussion.  Also, move various
info about the interlocking of transactions and snapshots out of code comments
and into a hopefully-more-cohesive discussion in access/transam/README.

Also, remove a couple of now-obsolete comments about having to force some WAL
to be written to persuade RecordTransactionCommit to do its thing.