This includes fixing the MSVC copy of ecpg/preproc's version info, which
seems to have been overlooked repeatedly.  Can't we fix that so there are
not two copies??

commit-fest.

Per buildfarm, and Álvaro Herrera.

(And why in the world is this OBJS list not being scraped from the
corresponding Makefile?)

Thanks to Andrew Dunstan for bringing this to my attention.

Brar Piening, reviewed by Craig Ringer.

pg_dumpall to use the same memory allocation functions as the others.

This fixes a longstanding but up to now benign bug in the way pg_dumpall
was built. The bug was exposed by recent code adjustments. The Makefile
does not use $(OBJS) to build pg_dumpall, so this fix removes their source
files from the pg_dumpall object and adds in the one source file it
consequently needs.

distro version of perl.

David Wheeler and Alex Hunsaker.

Backpatch to 9.1 where it applies cleanly. A simple workaround is available for earlier
branches, and further effort doesn't seem warranted.

Add option for parallel streaming of the transaction log while a
base backup is running, to get the logfiles before the server has
removed them.

Also add a tool called pg_receivexlog, which streams the transaction
log into files, creating a log archive without having to wait for
segments to complete, thus decreasing the window of data loss without
having to waste space using archive_timeout. This works best in
combination with archive_command - suggested usage docs etc coming later.

I thought we had enough infrastructure to absorb CPPFLAGS changes from
the makefiles, but buildfarm says otherwise.

on Windows. ecpglib doesn't link with libpgport, but picks and compiles
the .c files it needs individually. To cope with that, move the setlocale()
wrapper from chklocale.c to a separate setlocale.c file, and include that
in ecpglib.

The original scheme for this was to symlink plpython.$DLSUFFIX to
plpython2.$DLSUFFIX, but that doesn't work on Windows, and only
accidentally failed to fail because of the way that CREATE LANGUAGE created
or didn't create new C functions.  My changes of yesterday exposed the
weakness of that approach.  To fix, get rid of the symlink and make
pg_pltemplate show what's really going on.

In passing, change exclusion in the build to follow the
same pattern as other always-excluded modules.

This tool makes it possible to do the pg_start_backup/
copy files/pg_stop_backup step in a single command.

There are still some steps to be done before this is a
complete backup solution, such as the ability to stream
the required WAL logs, but it's still usable, and
could do with some buildfarm coverage.

In passing, make the checkpoint request optionally
fast instead of hardcoding it.

Magnus Hagander, reviewed by Fujii Masao and Dimitri Fontaine

Makes it easier to parse mainly the BASE_BACKUP command
with it's options, and avoids having to manually deal
with quoted identifiers in the label (previously broken),
and makes it easier to add new commands and options in
the future.

In passing, refactor the case statement in the walsender
to put each command in it's own function.

Forgot this with previuos commit, line it up so it's easier to
submit (readable) patches against the MSVC build system.

wait until it is set. Latches can be used to reliably wait until a signal
arrives, which is hard otherwise because signals don't interrupt select()
on some platforms, and even when they do, there's race conditions.

On Unix, latches use the so called self-pipe trick under the covers to
implement the sleep until the latch is set, without race conditions. On
Windows, Windows events are used.

Use the new latch abstraction to sleep in walsender, so that as soon as
a transaction finishes, walsender is woken up to immediately send the WAL
to the standby. This reduces the latency between master and standby, which
is good.

Preliminary work by Fujii Masao. The latch implementation is by me, with
helpful comments from many people.

where we started supporting MSVC builds.

Security: CVE-2010-1169

PROGRAM, not just MODULE, in contrib.

and indentation styles.

Jan Urbanski