flesh out the index operator classes to include these.  In passing,
fix erroneous volatility marking of ACL functions.

errors in internally-generated queries, such as those submitted by
plpgsql functions.  Per recent discussions with Fabien Coelho.

in one query, rather than making a separate query for each object that
could have a comment.  This costs relatively little space (a few tens of
K typically) and saves substantial time in databases with many objects.
I find it reduces the runtime of 'pg_dump -s regression' by about a
third.

Not an issue for 7.4.X.

Backpatch to 7.4.X.  Required for Solaris 7 & 8.

is done at creation time for plpgsql functions.  Improve createlang and
droplang to support adding/dropping validators for PLs.  Initial steps
towards producing a syntax error position from plpgsql syntax errors
(this part is a work in progress, and will change depending on outcome
of current discussions).

of fighting it, avoid hard-wired (and wrong) assumption about max length
of prefix, cause %l to actually work as documented, don't compute data
we may not need.

Make open/close loop testings the same.  Add descriptions for certain tests.

	Compare fsync before and after write's close:
	Compare one o_sync write to two:
	Compare file sync methods with one 8k write:
	Compare file sync methods with 2 8k writes:

same when done on the write() ile descriptor and a new descriptor.

it also times various fsync methods.

> * -Order duplicate index entries on creation by tid for faster heap lookups

TID (heap position).  This doesn't do anything to the validity of the
finished index, but by pretending to qsort() that there are no really
equal keys in the sort, we can avoid performance problems with qsort
implementations that have trouble with large numbers of equal keys.
Patch from Manfred Koizar.

so that the 'val' is computed only once, per recent discussion.  The
speedup is not much when 'val' is just a simple variable, but could be
significant for larger expressions.  More importantly this avoids issues
with multiple evaluations of a volatile 'val', and it allows the CASE
expression to be reverse-listed in its original form by ruleutils.c.

< * Order duplicate index entries by tid for faster heap lookups
> * Order duplicate index entries on creation by tid for faster heap lookups

directly to the appropriate per-node execution function, using a function
pointer stored by ExecInitExpr.  This speeds things up by eliminating one
level of function call.  The function-pointer technique also enables further
small improvements such as only making one-time tests once (and then
changing the function pointer).  Overall this seems to gain about 10%
on evaluation of simple expressions, which isn't earthshaking but seems
a worthwhile gain for a relatively small hack.  Per recent discussion
on pghackers.

> * Allow pg_dumpall to use non-text output formats
>

its description.

i've attached this again.

Additionally I include a small patch to remove mutex locking when a
DEFAULT/NULL connection is being retrieved. This is consistent with
libpq.

Lee Kindness

implementation.

Claudio Natoli

similar changes.

Claudio Natoli

in CreateOptsFile
* s_lock.c: minor comment fix
* findbe.c: variables not used under win32 moved within #ifndef WIN32
case

Claudio Natoli

Matthew T. O'Connor

that by querying the environment explicitly first for LC_COLLATE and
LC_CTYPE. We have to do this because initdb passes those values in the
environment. If there is nothing there we fall back on the codepage.

Andrew Dunstan