materialized.

New items have been added to GucContext and GucSource enums, but of
course they were not added to the corresponding GucContextName[] and
GucSourceName[] arrays in the patch. Here's a new patch to fix the
resulting bugs.

Joe Conway

the bulk of the heavy lifting ...

>>ISTM that "source" is worth knowing.
>
> Hm, possibly.  Any other opinions?

This version has the seven fields I proposed, including "source". Here's
an example that shows why I think it's valuable:

regression=# \x
Expanded display is on.
regression=# select * from pg_settings where name = 'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]-----------
name    | enable_seqscan
setting | on
context | user
vartype | bool
source  | default
min_val |
max_val |

regression=# update pg_settings set setting = 'off' where name =
'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]---
set_config | off

regression=# select * from pg_settings where name = 'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]-----------
name    | enable_seqscan
setting | off
context | user
vartype | bool
source  | session
min_val |
max_val |

regression=# alter user postgres set enable_seqscan to 'off';
ALTER USER

(log out and then back in again)

regression=# \x
Expanded display is on.
regression=# select * from pg_settings where name = 'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]-----------
name    | enable_seqscan
setting | off
context | user
vartype | bool
source  | user
min_val |
max_val |

In the first case, enable_seqscan is set to its default value. After
setting it to off, it is obvious that the value has been changed for the
session only. In the third case, you can see that the value has been set
specifically for the user.

Joe Conway

was modified for IPv6.  Use a robust definition of struct sockaddr_storage,
do a proper configure test to see if ss_len exists, don't assume that
getnameinfo() will handle AF_UNIX sockets, don't trust getaddrinfo to
return the protocol we ask for, etc.  This incorporates several outstanding
patches from Kurt Roeckx, but I'm to blame for anything that doesn't
work ...

Along the way, fix some logic problems in pgstat_initstats, notably the
bogus assumption that malloc returns zeroed memory.

date2j().  This ensures we give reasonable errors instead of bizarre
behavior for input dates far in the future.

for the sign of timezone offsets, ie, positive is east from UTC.  These
were previously out of step with other operations that accept or show
timezones, such as I/O of timestamptz values.

DATESTYLE, for instance 'SQL, European' instead of
'SQL with European conventions'.  Per gripe a month or two back from
Barry Lind.

padding logic for struct sockaddr_storage --- original version did not
do what it claimed to when SALEN is defined.

for each row processed, and don't forget the evaluation cost of any
restriction clauses attached to the node.  Per discussion with Greg Stark.

ascii.c.

Aizaz Ahmed

or increased only by super-users.

This fixes problems caused by making certain variables SUSET for
security reasons.

without needing a running backend.  Reorder postgresql.conf.sample
to match new layout of runtime.sgml.  This commit re-adds work lost
in Wednesday's crash.

function-not-found messages now distinguish the cases no-match and
ambiguous-match, and they follow the style guidelines too.

instead of the former kluge whereby gram.y emitted already-transformed
expressions.  This is needed so that Params appearing in these clauses
actually work correctly.  I suppose some might claim that the side effect
of 'SELECT ... LIMIT 2+2' working is a new feature, but I say this is
a bug fix.

so it has some chance of working in rules ...

It also works to create a non-polymorphic aggregate from polymorphic
functions, should you want to do that.  Regression test added, docs still
lacking.  By Joe Conway, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.

ANYELEMENT.  The effect is to postpone typechecking of the function
body until runtime.  Documentation is still lacking.

Original patch by Joe Conway, modified to postpone type checking
by Tom Lane.

reports get put into the postmaster log.  Options are TERSE, DEFAULT,
VERBOSE, with the same behavior as implemented on the client side in
libpq.

node emits only those vars that are actually needed above it in the
plan tree.  (There were comments in the code suggesting that this was
done at some point in the dim past, but for a long time we have just
made join nodes emit everything that either input emitted.)  Aside from
being marginally more efficient, this fixes the problem noted by Peter
Eisentraut where a join above an IN-implemented-as-join might fail,
because the subplan targetlist constructed in the latter case didn't
meet the expectation of including everything.
Along the way, fix some places that were O(N^2) in the targetlist
length.  This is not all the trouble spots for wide queries by any
means, but it's a step forward.

'scalar op ALL (array)', where the operator is applied between the
lefthand scalar and each element of the array.  The operator must
yield boolean; the result of the construct is the OR or AND of the
per-element results, respectively.

Original coding by Joe Conway, after an idea of Peter's.  Rewritten
by Tom to keep the implementation strictly separate from subqueries.