to assume that the string pointer passed to set_ps_display is good forever.
There's no need to anyway since ps_status.c itself saves the string, and
we already had an API (get_ps_display) to return it.
I believe this explains Jim Nasby's report of intermittent crashes in
elog.c when %i format code is in use in log_line_prefix.
While at it, repair a previously unnoticed problem: on some platforms such as
Darwin, the string returned by get_ps_display was blank-padded to the maximum
length, meaning that lock.c's attempt to append " waiting" to it never worked.

so as to avoid performance issues and possible ultimate crash on long
psql scripts.  Per Merlin Moncure.

to fail to successfully build the release candidates.

However, a patch has emerged (thanks, Seneca!) that does allow it to
work, and which I'd expect to be portable (better still!).

We are still actively pursuing why it breaks, but supposing that still
remains outstanding, at least the following would allow AIX users to
better survive a build...

Chris Browne

create circularity of role memberships.  This is a minimum-impact fix
for the problem reported by Florian Pflug.  I thought about removing
the superuser_arg test from is_member_of_role() altogether, as it seems
redundant for many of the callers --- but not all, and it's way too late
in the 8.1 cycle to be making large changes.  Perhaps reconsider this
later.

necessary, and be careful to refer to the right version where it is
useful to do so.  This partially reverts an ill-considered search and
replace from a few months ago.

to ensure that SubqueryScan elimination doesn't change the behavior of
reporting of original column sources.

from a finished plan tree.  We have to copy the output column names
(resname fields) from the SubqueryScan down to its child plan node;
else, if this is the topmost level of the plan, the wrong column names
will be delivered to the client.  Per bug #2017 reported by Jolly Chen.

those names.  (Debug and None were pretty bad names anyway.)  I hope I catched
all uses of the names in comments too.

of copy-editing from myself.

elsewhere.

very narrow window in which SimpleLruReadPage or SimpleLruWritePage could
think that I/O was needed when it wasn't (and indeed the buffer had already
been assigned to another page).  This would result in an Assert failure if
Asserts were enabled, and probably in silent data corruption if not.
Reported independently by Jim Nasby and Robert Creager.

I intend a more extensive fix when 8.2 development starts, but this is a
reasonably low-impact patch for the existing branches.

From Simon Riggs; cleanup and editorialization by Neil Conway.

Provide a --no-locale option for pg_regress and a corresponding NOLOCALE=1
setting for the regression makefile, allowing Windows users to force locale
settings since Windows does not get its locale from the environment.

Per Petr Jelinek.

referential integrity relationships.

tag it for rc1

Andreas Seltenreich

to fail with large test scripts.