memory in the executor's per-query memory context. It also inefficient:
it invokes get_call_result_type() and TupleDescGetAttInMetadata() for
every call to return_next, rather than invoking them once (per PL/Perl
function call) and memoizing the result.

This patch makes the following changes:

- refactor the code to include all the "per PL/Perl function call" data
inside a single struct, "current_call_data". This means we don't need to
save and restore N pointers for every recursive call into PL/Perl, we
can just save and restore one.

- lookup the return type metadata needed by plperl_return_next() once,
and then stash it in "current_call_data", so as to avoid doing the
lookup for every call to return_next.

- create a temporary memory context in which to evaluate the return
type's input functions. This memory context is reset for each call to
return_next.

The patch appears to fix the memory leak, and substantially reduces
the overhead imposed by return_next.

one 'creating subdirectories' message instead of one per subdirectory.
The original decision to print something for each subdirectory was made
when there were only one or two of 'em; we have way too many now.
Per discussion.

singlebyte encodings, so we should have snowball for every encodings.

I hope that finalize multibyte support work in tsearch2, but testing is needed...

While we normally prefer the notation "foo.*" for a whole-row Var, that does
not work at SELECT top level, because in that context the parser will assume
that what is wanted is to expand the "*" into a list of separate target
columns, yielding behavior different from a whole-row Var.  We have to emit
just "foo" instead in that context.  Per report from Sokolov Yura.

have a separate set of CIDR code here, either.

< * %Prevent INET cast to CIDR if the unmasked bits are not zero, or
<   zero the bits
< * %Prevent INET cast to CIDR from dropping netmask, SELECT '1.1.1.1'::inet::cidr
> * -Zero umasked bits in conversion from INET cast to CIDR
> * -Prevent INET cast to CIDR from dropping netmask, SELECT '1.1.1.1'::inet::cidr

and rely exclusively on the SQL type system to tell the difference between
the types.  Prevent creation of invalid CIDR values via casting from INET
or set_masklen() --- both of these operations now silently zero any bits
to the right of the netmask.  Remove duplicate CIDR comparison operators,
letting the type rely on the INET operators instead.

Same motivation as for BTItem.

just refer to btree index entries as plain IndexTuples, which is what
they have been for a very long time.  This is mostly just an exercise
in removing extraneous notation, but it does save a palloc/pfree cycle
per index insertion.

because pqSendSome will absorb input data anytime it'd be forced to block.
Avoiding a kernel call per PQputCopyData call helps COPY speed materially.

Alon Goldshuv

This completes the project to upgrade our handling of row comparisons.

instead of "10^0".

instead of 10^0.

provided by configure, instead.  Per bug #2205.

- Added another test case.

and non-required keys in a btree index scan, mark the required scankeys
with private flag bits SK_BT_REQFWD and/or SK_BT_REQBKWD.  This seems
at least marginally clearer to me, and it eliminates a wired-into-the-
data-structure assumption that required keys are consecutive.  Even though
that assumption will remain true for the foreseeable future, having it
in there makes the code seem more complex than necessary.

suggestion a couple days ago.  Fix some cases in which the documentation
neglected to mention any restriction on when a parameter can be set.
Try to be consistent about calling parameters parameters; use the term
option only for command-line switches.

< 	o Allow an alias to be provided for the target table in
< 	  UPDATE/DELETE
<
< 	  This is not SQL-spec but many DBMSs allow it.
<
> 	o -Allow an alias to be provided for the target table in
> 	  UPDATE/DELETE (Neil)

It's not related to whether an alias is used or not.

be any ColId other than 'SET', rather than only IDENT as originally.
Per discussion.

and DELETE. If specified, the alias must be used instead of the full
table name. Also, the alias currently cannot be used in the SET clause
of UPDATE.

Patch from Atsushi Ogawa, various editorialization by Neil Conway.
Along the way, make the rowtypes regression test pass if add_missing_from
is enabled, and add a new (skeletal) regression test for DELETE.

be consistent about whether it's called a daemon or a subprocess, and
don't describe the autovacuum setting in exactly the same way as the
stats_start_collector setting, because that leaves people thinking (if
they aren't paying close attention) that autovacuum can't be changed
on the fly.

to try to create a log segment file concurrently, but the code erroneously
specified O_EXCL to open(), resulting in a needless failure.  Before 7.4,
it was even a PANIC condition :-(.  Correct code is actually simpler than
what we had, because we can just say O_CREAT to start with and not need a
second open() call.  I believe this accounts for several recent reports of
hard-to-reproduce "could not create file ...: File exists" errors in both
pg_clog and pg_subtrans.

Continue to support GRANT ON [TABLE] for sequences for backward
compatibility;  issue warning for invalid sequence permissions.

[Backward compatibility warning message.]

Add USAGE permission for sequences that allows only currval() and
nextval(), not setval().

Mention object name in grant/revoke warnings because of possible
multi-object operations.

sizebitvec of tsearch2, as well as identical code in several other
contrib modules.  This provided about a 20X speedup in building a
large tsearch2 index ... didn't try to measure its effects for other
operations.  Thanks to Stephan Vollmer for providing a test case.

temp table not only our own process' tables.  It's not real important
since vacuum.c will skip temp tables anyway, but might as well make the
code do what it claims to do.

David Fetter

can be optimized.

mean stress ... system is orders of magnitude slower with this enabled).

index's support-function cache (in index_getprocinfo).  Since none of that
data can change for an index that's in active use, it seems sufficient to
treat all open indexes the same way we were treating "nailed" system indexes
--- that is, just re-read the pg_class row and leave the rest of the relcache
entry strictly alone.  The pg_class re-read might not be strictly necessary
either, but since the reltablespace and relfilenode can change in normal
operation it seems safest to do it.  (We don't support changing any of the
other info about an index at all, at the moment.)

Back-patch as far as 8.0.  It might be possible to adapt the patch to 7.4,
but it would take more work than I care to expend for such a low-probability
problem.  7.3 is out of luck for sure.