and SSPI athentication methods. While the old 2000 byte limit was more than
enough for Unix Kerberos implementations, tickets issued by Windows Domain
Controllers can be much larger.

Ian Turner

ASCII-art style of table output to be upgraded to use Unicode box drawing
characters if desired.  By default, psql will use the Unicode characters
whenever client_encoding is UTF8.

The patch forces linestyle=ascii in pg_regress usage, ensuring we don't
break the regression tests in Unicode locales.

Roger Leigh

Also insert a couple of Asserts that check for stack overflow.
Bogus coding appears to be new in 8.4 --- older releases had a much
simpler algorithm here.  Per bug #5111.

last week.

Per note and patch from Jeff Davis.

so cosmetic stuff.

the keywords as a consequence of the GRANT ALL patch, so we might as well
use them and make the ALTER commands read more naturally.

Petr Jelinek

execMain.c and into a new plan node type LockRows.  Like the recent change
to put table updating into a ModifyTable plan node, this increases planning
flexibility by allowing the operations to occur below the top level of the
plan tree.  It's necessary in any case to restore the previous behavior of
having FOR UPDATE locking occur before ModifyTable does.

This partially refactors EvalPlanQual to allow multiple rows-under-test
to be inserted into the EPQ machinery before starting an EPQ test query.
That isn't sufficient to fix EPQ's general bogosity in the face of plans
that return multiple rows per test row, though.  Since this patch is
mostly about getting some plan node infrastructure in place and not about
fixing ten-year-old bugs, I will leave EPQ improvements for another day.

Another behavioral change that we could now think about is doing FOR UPDATE
before LIMIT, but that too seems like it should be treated as a followon
patch.

* Stop escaping ? and {.  As of SQL:2008, SIMILAR TO is defined to have
POSIX-compatible interpretation of ? as well as {m,n} and related constructs,
so we should allow these things through to our regex engine.

* Escape ^ and $.  It appears that our regex engine will treat ^^ at the
beginning of the string the same as ^, and similarly for $$ at the end of
the string, which meant that SIMILAR TO was effectively ignoring ^ at the
start of the pattern and $ at the end.  Since these are not supposed to be
metacharacters, this is a bug.

The second part of this is arguably a back-patchable bug fix, but I'm
hesitant to do that because it might break applications that are expecting
something like "col SIMILAR TO '^foo$'" to work like a POSIX pattern.
Seems safer to only change it at a major version boundary.

Per discussion of an example from Doug Gorley.

They are now handled by a new plan node type called ModifyTable, which is
placed at the top of the plan tree.  In itself this change doesn't do much,
except perhaps make the handling of RETURNING lists and inherited UPDATEs a
tad less klugy.  But it is necessary preparation for the intended extension of
allowing RETURNING queries inside WITH.

Marko Tiikkaja

Add a variant of pg_get_triggerdef with a second argument "pretty" that
causes the output to be formatted in the way pg_dump used to do.  Use this
variant in pg_dump with server versions >= 8.5.

This insulates pg_dump from most future trigger feature additions, such as
the upcoming column triggers patch.

Author: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>

friends).  This code has all been ifdef'd out for many years, and doesn't
seem to have any prospect of becoming any more useful in the future.
EXPLAIN ANALYZE is what people use in practice, and I think if we did want
process-wide counters we'd be more likely to put in dtrace events for that
than try to resurrect this code.  Get rid of it so as to have one less detail
to worry about while refactoring execMain.c.

I also thank Bernd Helmle for the documentation help on the previous settings
patch, which I forgot on the commit message.

8, bitncmp() may dereference a pointer one byte out of bounds.

Chris Mikkelson (bug #5101)

procedural languages.

match which function parameters.  The syntax uses AS, for example
	funcname(value AS arg1, anothervalue AS arg2)

Pavel Stehule

Create a new catalog pg_db_role_setting where they are now stored, and better
encapsulate the code that deals with settings into its realm.  The old
datconfig and rolconfig columns are removed.

psql has gained a \drds command to display the settings.

Backwards compatibility warning: while the backwards-compatible system views
still have the config columns, they no longer completely represent the
configuration for a user or database.

Catalog version bumped.

Partially revert the previous patch I installed and replace it with a more
general fix: any time a snapshot is pushed as Active, we need to ensure that it
will not be modified in the future.  This means that if the same snapshot is
used as CurrentSnapshot, it needs to be copied separately.  This affects
serializable transactions only, because CurrentSnapshot has already been copied
by RegisterSnapshot and so PushActiveSnapshot does not think it needs another
copy.  However, CommandCounterIncrement would modify CurrentSnapshot, whereas
ActiveSnapshots must not have their command counters incremented.

I say "partially" because the regression test I added for the previous bug
has been kept.

(This restores 8.3 behavior, because before snapmgr.c existed, any snapshot set
as Active was copied.)

Per bug report from Stuart Bishop in
6bc73d4c0910042358k3d1adff3qa36f8df75198ecea@mail.gmail.com

Most things should be cleaned by "make clean", except the parts that are
shipped in the tarball.  These rules had gotten a bit out of whack after
the various restructurings of the documentation build rules.

inheritance parent tables are compared using equal(), instead of doing
strcmp() on the nodeToString representation.  The old implementation was
always a tad cheesy, and it finally fails completely as of 8.4, now that the
node tree might contain syntax location information.  equal() knows it's
supposed to ignore those fields, but strcmp() hardly can.  Per recent
report from Scott Ribe.

(Or rather, unbreak what the previous commit broke)

the privileges that will be applied to subsequently-created objects.

Such adjustments are always per owning role, and can be restricted to objects
created in particular schemas too.  A notable benefit is that users can
override the traditional default privilege settings, eg, the PUBLIC EXECUTE
privilege traditionally granted by default for functions.

Petr Jelinek

large number of SIGHUP cycles, these would have run the postmaster out
of memory.  Noted while testing memory-leak scenario in postgresql.conf
configuration-change-printing patch.

settings: avoid calling superuser() in contexts where it's not defined,
don't leak the transient copies of GetConfigOption output, and avoid the
whole exercise in postmaster child processes.

I found that actually no current caller of GetConfigOption has any use for
its internal check of GUC_SUPERUSER_ONLY.  But rather than just remove
that entirely, it seemed better to add a parameter indicating whether to
enforce the check.

Per report from Simon and subsequent testing.

to be collected for sequences.

Report and fix by Akira Kurosawa

tuple size limit.  Improve the error message for index-tuple-too-large
so that it includes the actual size, the limit, and the index name.
Sync with the btree occurrences of the same error.

Back-patch to 8.4 because it appears that the out-of-sync problem
is occurring in the field.

Teodor and Tom

in CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION.  The original code would update pg_shdepend
as if a new function was being created, even if it wasn't, with two bad
consequences: pg_shdepend might record the wrong owner for the function,
and any dependencies for roles mentioned in the function's ACL would be lost.
The fix is very easy: just don't touch pg_shdepend at all when doing a
function replacement.

Also update the CREATE FUNCTION reference page, which never explained
exactly what changes and doesn't change in a function replacement.
In passing, fix the CREATE VIEW reference page similarly; there's no
code bug there, but the docs didn't say what happens.

The old coding was using a regular snapshot, referenced elsewhere, that was
subject to having its command counter updated.  Fix by creating a private copy
of the snapshot exclusively for the cursor.

Backpatch to 8.4, which is when the bug was introduced during the snapshot
management rewrite.

by enumerating the machine's IP interfaces to look for a match.

Stef Walter

Remove the 64K limit on the lengths of keys and values within an hstore.
(This changes the on-disk format, but the old format can still be read.)
Add support for btree/hash opclasses for hstore --- this is not so much
for actual indexing purposes as to allow use of GROUP BY, DISTINCT, etc.
Add various other new functions and operators.

Andrew Gierth

based on an idea by Richard Huxton

in plpgsql.  Clean up a couple of corner cases in the MOVE/FETCH syntax.

Pavel Stehule

The original coding correctly noted that these aren't just redundancies
(they're effectively X IS NOT NULL, assuming = is strict).  However, they
got treated that way if X happened to be in a single-member EquivalenceClass
already, which could happen if there was an ORDER BY X clause, for instance.
The simplest and most reliable solution seems to be to not try to process
such clauses through the EquivalenceClass machinery; just throw them back
for traditional processing.  The amount of work that'd be needed to be
smarter than that seems out of proportion to the benefit.

Per bug #5084 from Bernt Marius Johnsen, and analysis by Andrew Gierth.