We used to only initialize the stack base pointer when starting up a regular
backend, not in other processes. In particular, autovacuum workers can run
arbitrary user code, and without stack-depth checking, infinite recursion
in e.g an index expression will bring down the whole cluster.

The comment about PL/Java using set_stack_base() is not yet true. As the
code stands, PL/java still modifies the stack_base_ptr variable directly.
However, it's been discussed in the PL/Java mailing list that it should be
changed to use the function, because PL/Java is currently oblivious to the
register stack used on Itanium. There's another issues with PL/Java, namely
that the stack base pointer it sets is not really the base of the stack, it
could be something close to the bottom of the stack. That's a separate issue
that might need some further changes to this code, but that's a different
story.

Backpatch to all supported releases.

Thom Brown

XLOG_GIN_UPDATE_META_PAGE and XLOG_GIN_DELETE_LISTPAGE records were printed
with a list link field labeled as "blkno", which was confusing, especially
when the link was empty (InvalidBlockNumber).  Print the metapage block
number instead, since that's what's actually being updated.  We could
include the link values too as a separate field, but not clear it's worth
the trouble.

Back-patch to 8.4 where the dubious code was added.

Commit 337b6f5e contained the entirely
fanciful assumption that it had made comparetup_datum unreachable.
Reported and patched by Takashi Yamamoto.

Fix up some not terribly accurate/useful comments from that commit, too.

Thom Brown

Thom Brown

If we make the initially-called function return the table physical-size
estimate, acquire_inherited_sample_rows will be able to use that to
allocate numbers of samples among child tables, when the day comes that
we want to support foreign tables in inheritance trees.

ANALYZE now accepts foreign tables and allows the table's FDW to control
how the sample rows are collected.  (But only manual ANALYZEs will touch
foreign tables, for the moment, since among other things it's not very
clear how to handle remote permissions checks in an auto-analyze.)

contrib/file_fdw is extended to support this.

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Shigeru Hanada, some further tweaking by me.

Report by Guillaume Lelarge.

Report by Andrew Dunstan.

The option --no-wrap prevents wars with (most?) editors about proper
line wrapping.  --sort-by-file ensures consistent file order, for
easier diffing.

Greg Smith and Jaime Casanova, reviewed by Alex Shulgin and myself.
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Greg Smith, Peter Geoghegan, and Robert Haas

Somebody didn't bother to fix this comment while adding foreign table
support to the code below it.

In passing, remove the explicit calling-out of relkind letters, which adds
complexity to the comment but doesn't help in understanding the code.

The views are in milliseconds, but the raw functions return
microseconds.

Ants Aasma's original patch to add timing information for buffer I/O
requests exposed this data at the relation level, which was judged too
costly.  I've here exposed it at the database level instead.

The parser got confused if a cursor parameter had the same name as
a plpgsql variable.  Reported and diagnosed by Yeb Havinga, though
this isn't exactly his proposed fix.

Also, some mostly-but-not-entirely-cosmetic adjustments to the original
named-cursor-parameter patch, for code readability and better error
diagnostics.

This patch provides a test case for libpq's row processor API.
contrib/dblink can deal with very large result sets by dumping them into
a tuplestore (which can spill to disk) --- but until now, the intermediate
storage of the query result in a PGresult meant memory bloat for any large
result.  Now we use a row processor to convert the data to tuple form and
dump it directly into the tuplestore.

A limitation is that this only works for plain dblink() queries, not
dblink_send_query() followed by dblink_get_result().  In the latter
case we don't know the desired tuple rowtype soon enough.  While hack
solutions to that are possible, a different user-level API would
probably be a better answer.

Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed by Marko Kreen and Tom Lane

Traditionally libpq has collected an entire query result before passing
it back to the application.  That provides a simple and transactional API,
but it's pretty inefficient for large result sets.  This patch allows the
application to process each row on-the-fly instead of accumulating the
rows into the PGresult.  Error recovery becomes a bit more complex, but
often that tradeoff is well worth making.

Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed by Marko Kreen and Tom Lane

There is no existing or foreseeable case in which psql should see a
PGRES_COPY_BOTH PQresultStatus; and if such a case ever emerges, it's a
pretty good bet that these code fragments wouldn't do the right thing
anyway.  Remove them, and let the existing default cases do the appropriate
thing, namely emit an "unexpected PQresultStatus" bleat.

Noted while working on libpq row processor patch, for which I was
considering adding a PGRES_SUSPENDED status code --- the same default-case
treatment would be appropriate for that.

The original coding of the syslogger had an arbitrary limit of 20 large
messages concurrently in progress, after which it would just punt and dump
message fragments to the output file separately.  Our ambitions are a bit
higher than that now, so allow the data structure to expand as necessary.

Reported and patched by Andrew Dunstan; some editing by Tom

dblink_exec leaked temporary database connections if any error occurred
after connection setup, for example
	SELECT dblink_exec('...connect string...', 'select 1/0');
Add a PG_TRY block to ensure PQfinish gets done when it is needed.
(dblink_record_internal is on the hairy edge of needing similar treatment,
but seems not to be actively broken at the moment.)

Also, in 9.0 and up, only one of the three functions using tuplestore
return mode was properly checking that the query context would allow
a tuplestore result.

Noted while reviewing dblink patch.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Extracted from Joachim Wieland's parallel pg_dump patch, with some
additional comments by me.

Use msgmerge --lang option to seed the Language field, recently
introduced by gettext, in the header of the new PO file.

Combining the loop workspace with the record of already-processed objects
might have been a cute trick, but it behaves horridly if there are many
dependency loops to repair: the time spent in the first step of findLoop()
grows as O(N^2).  Instead use a separate flag array indexed by dump ID,
which we can check in constant time.  The length of the workspace array
is now never more than the actual length of a dependency chain, which
should be reasonably short in all cases of practical interest.  The code
is noticeably easier to understand this way, too.

Per gripe from Mike Roest.  Since this is a longstanding performance bug,
backpatch to all supported versions.

The loop that matched owned sequences to their owning tables required time
proportional to number of owned sequences times number of tables; although
this work was only expended in selective-dump situations, which is probably
why the issue wasn't recognized long since.  Refactor slightly so that we
can perform this work after the index array for findTableByOid has been
set up, reducing the time to O(M log N).

Per gripe from Mike Roest.  Since this is a longstanding performance bug,
backpatch to all supported versions.

ecpg and pg_dump each contain keyword arrays with structure similar
to the backend's keyword array.  Up to now, we actually named those
arrays the same as the backend's and relied on parser/keywords.h
to declare them.  This seems a tad too cute, though, and it breaks
now that we need to PGDLLIMPORT-decorate the backend symbols.
Rename to avoid the problem.  Per buildfarm.

(It strikes me that maybe we should get rid of the separate keywords.c
files altogether, and just define these arrays in the modules that use
them, but that's a rather more invasive change.)

Over-optimization (by me, looks like :-() broke the case of recognizing
a word boundary just before a quoted identifier.  Reported and diagnosed
by Dean Rasheed.

Per buildfarm, this is now needed by contrib/pg_stat_statements.

Some of these are newly added, some are older and were forgotten, some
don't contain any translatable strings right now but look like they
could in the future.

see also ce8d7bb6

Otherwise, the availability of these variables depends on what
happened to be available at the time the PostgreSQL build was
configured.

Fujii Masao, plus a comment by me.  While I'm at it, correctly tabify
this chunk of code.