that the types of untyped string-literal constants are deduced (ie,
when coerce_type is applied to 'em, that's what the type must be).
Remove the ancient hack of storing the input Param-types array as a
global variable, and put the info into ParseState instead.  This touches
a lot of files because of adjustment of routine parameter lists, but
it's really not a large patch.  Note: PREPARE statement still insists on
exact specification of parameter types, but that could easily be relaxed
now, if we wanted to do so.

I had inadvertently omitted it while rearranging things to support
length-counted incoming messages.  Also, change the parser's API back
to accepting a 'char *' query string instead of 'StringInfo', as the
latter wasn't buying us anything except overhead.  (I think when I put
it in I had some notion of making the parser API 8-bit-clean, but
seeing that flex depends on null-terminated input, that's not really
ever gonna happen.)

rewritten and the protocol is changed, but most elog calls are still
elog calls.  Also, we need to contemplate mechanisms for controlling
all this functionality --- eg, how much stuff should appear in the
postmaster log?  And what API should libpq expose for it?

have length words.  COPY OUT reimplemented per new protocol: it doesn't
need \. anymore, thank goodness.  COPY BINARY to/from frontend works,
at least as far as the backend is concerned --- libpq's PQgetline API
is not up to snuff, and will have to be replaced with something that is
null-safe.  libpq uses message length words for performance improvement
(no cycles wasted rescanning long messages), but not yet for error
recovery.

have length counts, and COPY IN data is packetized into messages.

with variable-width fields.  No more truncation of long user names.
Also, libpq can now send its environment-variable-driven SET commands
as part of the startup packet, saving round trips to server.

when autocommit is off, and document grouping when autocommit is on.

Cleans up blank query handling to be more consistent.

Add ALTER SEQUENCE to modify min/max/increment/cache/cycle values

Also updated create sequence docs to mention NO MINVALUE, & NO MAXVALUE.

New Files:
doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_sequence.sgml
src/test/regress/expected/sequence.out
src/test/regress/sql/sequence.sql


ALTER SEQUENCE is NOT transactional.  It behaves similarly to setval().
It matches the proposed SQL200N spec, as well as Oracle in most ways --
Oracle lacks RESTART WITH for some strange reason.

--
Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

utility statement (DeclareCursorStmt) with a SELECT query dangling from
it, rather than a SELECT query with a few unusual fields in it.  Add
code to determine whether a planned query can safely be run backwards.
If DECLARE CURSOR specifies SCROLL, ensure that the plan can be run
backwards by adding a Materialize plan node if it can't.  Without SCROLL,
you get an error if you try to fetch backwards from a cursor that can't
handle it.  (There is still some discussion about what the exact
behavior should be, but this is necessary infrastructure in any case.)
Along the way, make EXPLAIN DECLARE CURSOR work.

at database shutdown, and then load it again at database startup.  This
preserves our hard-won knowledge of free space across restarts (given
an orderly shutdown, that is).

codes, per discussion from last March.  parse.h should now be included
*only* by gram.y, scan.l, keywords.c, parser.c.  This prevents surprising
misbehavior after seemingly-trivial grammar adjustments.

target function.  Also, move SetQuerySnapshot() call to avoid assert
failure when a fastpath call is attempted in an aborted transaction.

ALTER DOMAIN .. SET / DROP DEFAULT
ALTER DOMAIN .. ADD / DROP CONSTRAINT

New files:
- doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_domain.sgml

Rod Taylor

"canceled", so I changed the one remaining usage of the British
spelling ("cancelled") over to the former, and updated the translation
files appropriately.

Neil Conway

! #show_parser_stats = false
! #show_planner_stats = false
! #show_executor_stats = false
! #show_statement_stats = false

TO:

! #log_parser_stats = false
! #log_planner_stats = false
! #log_executor_stats = false
! #log_statement_stats = false

of log_ settings.

between signal handler and enable/disable code, avoid accumulation of
timing error due to trying to maintain remaining-time instead of
absolute-end-time, disable timeout before commit not after.

field is signed.  Clean up casting.

all utility statement types *except* a short list, per discussion a few
days ago.  Add missing SetQuerySnapshot calls in VACUUM and REINDEX,
and guard against calling REINDEX DATABASE from a function (has same
problem as VACUUM).

command status at the interactive level.  SPI_processed, etc are set
in the same way as the returned command status would have been set if
the same querystring were issued interactively.  Per gripe from
Michael Paesold 25-Sep-02.

as per recent pghackers discussions.  initdb forced due to change in
fields of stored Query nodes.

into postgres.c; make sure it happens for all cases that seem to need it.
Perhaps it would be better to explicitly exclude just a few utility
statement types from setting a snapshot?

at this area in the code.

handling in the backend.

ProcKill instead, where we still have a PGPROC with which to wait on
LWLocks.  This fixes 'can't wait without a PROC structure' failures
occasionally seen during backend shutdown (I'm surprised they weren't
more frequent, actually).  Add an Assert() to LWLockAcquire to help
catch any similar mistakes in future.  Fix failure to update MyProcPid
for standalone backends and pgstat processes.

> moment, but they used to be used; I think the correct response is to
> put back the missing counter increments, not rip out the counters.

Ok, fair enough. It's worth noting that they've been broken for a
while -- for example, the HashJoin counter increments were broken when
you comitted r1.20 of executor/nodeHashJoin.c in May of '99.

I've attached a revised patch that doesn't remove the counters (but
doesn't increment them either: I'm not sure of all the places where
the counter should be incremented).

Neil Conway

(notify/SI-overrun interrupt) while it is in process of doing proc_exit,
it is possible for Async_NotifyHandler() to try to start a transaction
when one is already running.  This leads to Asserts() or worse.  I think
it may only be possible to occur when frontend synchronization is lost
(ie, the elog(FATAL) in SocketBackend() fires), but that is a standard
occurrence after error during COPY.  In any case, I have seen this
failure occur during regression tests, so it is definitely possible.

pgmonitor.

Now log_min_error_statement uses it.

because c.h has sys/types.h.

Rename debug_print_query to log_statement and rename show_query_stats to
show_statement_stats.

to false provides more SQL-spec-compliant behavior than we had before.
I am not sure that setting it false is actually a good idea yet; there
is a lot of client-side code that will probably be broken by turning
autocommit off.  But it's a start.

Loosely based on a patch by David Van Wie.