parse_analyze() function. That case occurs e.g with PL/pgSQL
EXECUTE ... USING 'stringconstant'.

The coercion with a CoerceViaIO node. The result is similar to the coercion
via input function performed for unknown constants in coerce_type(),
except that this happens at runtime.

Backpatch to 9.0. The issue is present in 8.4 as well, but the coerce param
hook infrastructure this patch relies on was introduced in 9.0. Given the
lack of user reports and harmlessness of the bug, it's not worth attempting
a different fix just for 8.4.

socket lockfile) when writing them.  The lack of an fsync here may well
explain two different reports we've seen of corrupted lockfile contents,
which doesn't particularly bother the running server but can prevent a
new server from starting if the old one crashes.  Per suggestion from
Alvaro.

Back-patch to all supported versions.

This is appropriate for the same reasons we already do it in
LockSharedObject(): things might have changed while we were waiting
for the lock.  There doesn't seem to be a live bug here at the moment,
but that's mostly because it isn't currently used for very much.

in particular, propagate a fix in the test to see whether a UTF8 character has
length 4 bytes.  This is likely of little real-world consequence because
5-or-more-byte UTF8 sequences are not supported by Postgres nor seen anywhere
in the wild, but still we may as well get it right.  Problem found by Joseph
Adams.

Bug is aboriginal, so back-patch all the way.

Boszormenyi Zoltan.

Robert Haas, per gripe from Erik Rijkers

Kevin Grittner, with markup adjustments.

used by array_agg(), string_agg(), and similar aggregate functions that use
"internal" as their transition datatype.  The previous coding thought this
took *no* extra space, since "internal" is pass-by-value; but actually these
aggregates typically consume a great deal of space.  Per bug #5608 from
Itagaki Takahiro, and fix suggestion from Hitoshi Harada.

Back-patch to 8.4, where array_agg was introduced.

Update comment about them in pg_get_functiondef.

look at a function but don't wish to fire up an editor.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Jan Urbanski

access it on Windows.  Per buildfarm.

Update the documentation, and back out a few ill-considered changes
whose folly I failed to realize for failure to read the documentation.

in temp relpaths.

Per buildfarm.

Also prevent possible repeat opening of pager in helpSQL().

This allows us to reliably remove all leftover temporary relation
files on cluster startup without reference to system catalogs or WAL;
therefore, we no longer include temporary relations in XLOG_XACT_COMMIT
and XLOG_XACT_ABORT WAL records.

Since these changes require including a backend ID in each
SharedInvalSmgrMsg, the size of the SharedInvalidationMessage.id
field has been reduced from two bytes to one, and the maximum number
of connections has been reduced from INT_MAX / 4 to 2^23-1.  It would
be possible to remove these restrictions by increasing the size of
SharedInvalidationMessage by 4 bytes, but right now that doesn't seem
like a good trade-off.

Review by Jaime Casanova and Tom Lane.

I just noticed that libpq's pqsignal.h was violating our general inclusion
style guidelines by explicitly including postgres_fe.h.  Remove that, and
put it in pqsignal.c where it belongs.

functions to the core XML code.  Per discussion, the former depends on
XMLOPTION while the others do not.  These supersede a version previously
offered by contrib/xml2.

Mike Fowler, reviewed by Pavel Stehule

path that specifies useTemp, but there is no active temp schema in the
current session.  (This can happen if the path was saved during a transaction
that created a temp schema and was later rolled back.)  For existing callers
it's sufficient to ignore the useTemp flag in this case, though we might
later want to offer an option to create a fresh temp schema.  So far as I can
tell this is just an Assert failure: in a non-assert build, the code would
push a zero onto the new search path, which is useless but not very harmful.
Per bug report from Heikki.

Back-patch to 8.3; prior versions don't have this code.

Since the only purpose of WAL-loggin SharedInvalidationMessages is to support
Hot Standby operation, they needn't be included when wal_level < hot_standby.

Back-patch to 9.0.

Review by Heikki Linnakanagas and Fujii Masao.

and input file name, per bug #5617 from Leo Shklovskii.  Rearrange the
corresponding code in pg_dump and pg_dumpall so that all three programs
handle this in a consistent, straightforward fashion.

Back-patch to 9.0, but no further.  Although this is certainly a bug, it's
possible that people have scripts that will be broken by the added error
check, so it seems better not to change the behavior in stable branches.

Thom Brown

Fujii Masao

out immediately on any out-of-memory condition.  It's rather pointless to
imagine that pgbench will be able to continue usefully after a malloc
failure, and in any case there were a number of unchecked mallocs.

times) to pgbench.

Florian Pflug, reviewed by Greg Smith

and the editor's cursor will be initially placed on that line.  In \e the
lines are counted with respect to the query buffer, while in \ef they are
counted with line 1 = first line of function body.  These choices are useful
for positioning the cursor on the line of a previously-reported error.

To avoid assumptions about what switch the user's editor takes for this
purpose, invent a new psql variable EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH with (at
present) no default value.

One incompatibility from previous behavior is that "\e 1234" will now
take "1234" as a line number not a file name.  There are at least two
ways to select a numerically-named file if you really want to.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Jan Urbanski, with further editing by Robert Haas
and Tom Lane

continue to accept an empty array with dimension information. array_send()
can output such arrays.

Per report from Vladimir Shakhov.

Again, back-patch all the way to 7.4.

ecpgerrno.h hasn't materially changed since PostgreSQL 7.4, so this has
been wrong for a very long time.  Back-patch all the way.

Satoshi Nagayasu

pairs that can be handled by xslt_process().

There is much else to do here, but this patch seems useful in its own right
for as long as this code survives.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Mike Fowler

better handling of NULL elements within the arrays.  The third parameter
is a string that should be used to represent a NULL element, or should
be translated into a NULL element, respectively.  If the third parameter
is NULL it behaves the same as the two-parameter form.

There are two incompatible changes in the behavior of the two-parameter form
of string_to_array.  First, it will return an empty (zero-element) array
rather than NULL when the input string is of zero length.  Second, if the
field separator is NULL, the function splits the string into individual
characters, rather than returning NULL as before.  These two changes make
this form fully compatible with the behavior of the new three-parameter form.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Brendan Jurd

surrounding text refers to the example inline.

Per observation from Tom Lane that the previous patch to these files was
not consistent with what is done elsewhere in the docs.