< * %Disallow changing DEFAULT expression of a SERIAL column?
<
<   This should be done only if the existing SERIAL problems cannot be
<   fixed.
<
< * %Disallow ALTER SEQUENCE changes for SERIAL sequences because pg_dump
<   does not dump the changes

by abandoning the idea that it should say SERIAL in the dump.  Instead,
dump serial sequences and column defaults just like regular ones.
Add a new backend command ALTER SEQUENCE OWNED BY to let pg_dump recreate
the sequence-to-column dependency that was formerly created "behind the
scenes" by SERIAL.  This restores SERIAL to being truly "just a macro"
consisting of component operations that can be stated explicitly in SQL.
Furthermore, the new command allows sequence ownership to be reassigned,
so that old mistakes can be cleaned up.

Also, downgrade the OWNED-BY dependency from INTERNAL to AUTO, since there
is no longer any very compelling argument why the sequence couldn't be
dropped while keeping the column.  (This forces initdb, to be sure the
right kinds of dependencies are in there.)

Along the way, add checks to prevent ALTER OWNER or SET SCHEMA on an
owned sequence; you can now only do this indirectly by changing the
owning table's owner or schema.  This is an oversight in previous
releases, but probably not worth back-patching.

each object to be deleted, instead of the previous hack that just skipped
INTERNAL dependencies, which didn't really work.  Per report from Tom Lane.

To do this, introduce a new performMultipleDeletions entry point in
dependency.c to delete multiple objects at once.  The dependency code then has
the responsability of tracking INTERNAL and AUTO dependencies as needed.

Along the way, change ObjectAddresses so that we can allocate an ObjectAddress
list from outside dependency.c and not have to export the internal
representation.

functions in its targetlist, to avoid introducing multiple evaluations
of volatile functions that textually appear only once.  This is a
slightly tighter version of Jaime Casanova's recent patch.

that ps_status provides by appending 'waiting' to the PS display.  This
completes the project of making it feasible to turn off process title
updates and instead rely on pg_stat_activity.  Per my suggestion a few
weeks ago.

to allow obtaining information about previously prepared statements and
open cursors.  Volkan Yazici

the rel, it's easy to get rid of the narrow race-condition window that
used to exist in VACUUM and CLUSTER.  Did some minor code-beautification
work in the same area, too.

Synced parser and keyword list.
Fixed parsing of CONNECT statement so it accepts a C string again.

Magnus.

than N seconds apart.  This allows a simple, if not very high performance,
means of guaranteeing that a PITR archive is no more than N seconds behind
real time.  Also make pg_current_xlog_location return the WAL Write pointer,
add pg_current_xlog_insert_location to return the Insert pointer, and fix
pg_xlogfile_name_offset to return its results as a two-element record instead
of a smashed-together string, as per recent discussion.

Simon Riggs

found.  Besides stopping those early who have no dtrace installed
whatsoever, this will also alert those who have dtrace in /usr/sbin, which
might not be in the path, which would produce confusing failures much later
in the build process.

Add documentation about pointing configure to find dtrace.

mergejoin possibility where the inner rel was less well sorted than
the outer (ie, it matches some but not all of the merge clauses that
can work with the outer), if the inner path in question is also the
overall cheapest path for its rel.  This is an old bug, but I'm not
sure it's worth back-patching, because it's such a corner case.
Noted while investigating a test case from Peter Hardman.

subquery's pathkey is a RelabelType applied to something that appears
in the subquery's output; for example where the subquery returns a
varchar Var and the sort order is shown as that Var coerced to text.
This comes up because varchar doesn't have its own sort operator.
Per example from Peter Hardman.

< * Add support for arrays of domains
> 	o Add support for arrays of domains
> 	o Add support for arrays of complex types

> * Support a data type with specific enumerated values (ENUM)
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg00979.php

> * Add support for arrays of domains

Per buildfarm results from warthog.

internal TypInfo table in bootstrap mode.  This allows array_in and
array_out to be used during early bootstrap, which eliminates the
former obstacle to giving OUT parameters to built-in functions.

to instrument PL/pgSQL.  Korry Douglas

such as debugging and performance measurement.  This consists of two features:
a table of "rendezvous variables" that allows separately-loaded shared
libraries to communicate, and a new GUC setting "local_preload_libraries"
that allows libraries to be loaded into specific sessions without explicit
cooperation from the client application.  To make local_preload_libraries
as flexible as possible, we do not restrict its use to superusers; instead,
it is restricted to load only libraries stored in $libdir/plugins/.  The
existing LOAD command has also been modified to allow non-superusers to
LOAD libraries stored in this directory.

This patch also renames the existing GUC variable preload_libraries to
shared_preload_libraries (after a suggestion by Simon Riggs) and does some
code refactoring in dfmgr.c to improve clarity.

Korry Douglas, with a little help from Tom Lane.

patches contributed by Itagaki Takahiro.

Fixed broken newline on Windows.
Fixed a nasty buffer underrun that only occured when using Informix
no_indicator NULL setting on timestamps and intervals.

requiring read permissions.  Up till now there was no possible case
in which the RTEs wouldn't already have ACL_SELECT set ... but now that
you can say something like 'INSERT INTO foo ... RETURNING *' this is
an essential step.  With this commit, a RETURNING clause adds the
requirement for SELECT permissions on the target table if and only if
the clause actually reads the value of at least one target-table column.

cannot assume that there's exactly one Query in the Portal, as we can for
ONE_SELECT mode, because non-SELECT queries might have extra queries added
during rule rewrites.  Fix things up so that we'll use ONE_RETURNING mode
when a Portal contains one primary (canSetTag) query and that query has
a RETURNING list.  This appears to be a second showstopper reason for running
the Portal to completion before we start to hand anything back --- we want
to be sure that the rule-added queries get run too.

as per yesterday's proposal.  Also make things a tad more orthogonal by
adding the recent STRICT addition to EXECUTE INTO.
Jonah Harris and Tom Lane

_SPI_execute_plan's return code should reflect the type of the query
that is marked canSetTag, not necessarily the last one in the list.

This is arguably a bug fix, but I'm hesitant to back-patch it because
it's the sort of subtle change that might break someone's code, and it's
best not to do that kind of thing in point releases.

a Coverity warning, these are risky since the hashtable isn't necessarily
fully set up yet.  They're unnecessary anyway: a deletable hashtable
should be in a memory context that will be cleared following elog(ERROR).
Per report from Martijn van Oosterhout.

values, due to concern about the patch.