Previously, if you wanted anything besides C-string hash keys, you had to
specify a custom hashing function to hash_create().  Nearly all such
callers were specifying tag_hash or oid_hash; which is tedious, and rather
error-prone, since a caller could easily miss the opportunity to optimize
by using hash_uint32 when appropriate.  Replace this with a design whereby
callers using simple binary-data keys just specify HASH_BLOBS and don't
need to mess with specific support functions.  hash_create() itself will
take care of optimizing when the key size is four bytes.

This nets out saving a few hundred bytes of code space, and offers
a measurable performance improvement in tidbitmap.c (which was not
exploiting the opportunity to use hash_uint32 for its 4-byte keys).
There might be some wins elsewhere too, I didn't analyze closely.

In future we could look into offering a similar optimized hashing function
for 8-byte keys.  Under this design that could be done in a centralized
and machine-independent fashion, whereas getting it right for keys of
platform-dependent sizes would've been notationally painful before.

For the moment, the old way still works fine, so as not to break source
code compatibility for loadable modules.  Eventually we might want to
remove tag_hash and friends from the exported API altogether, since there's
no real need for them to be explicitly referenced from outside dynahash.c.

Teodor Sigaev and Tom Lane

Two changes:

1. When copying a WAL segment from old timeline to create the first segment
on the new timeline, only copy up to the point where the timeline switch
happens, and zero-fill the rest. This avoids corner cases where we might
think that the copied WAL from the previous timeline belong to the new
timeline.

2. If the timeline switch happens at a segment boundary, don't copy the
whole old segment to the new timeline. It's pointless, because it's 100%
identical to the old segment.

st_changecount protocol needs the memory barriers to ensure that
the apparent order of execution is as it desires. Otherwise,
for example, the CPU might rearrange the code so that st_changecount
is incremented twice before the modification on a machine with
weak memory ordering. This surprising result can lead to bugs.

This commit introduces the macros to load and store st_changecount
with the memory barriers. These are called before and after
PgBackendStatus entries are modified or copied into private memory,
in order to prevent CPU from reordering PgBackendStatus access.

Per discussion on pgsql-hackers, we decided not to back-patch this
to 9.4 or before until we get an actual bug report about this.

Patch by me. Review by Robert Haas.

In generate_series_step_numeric(), the variables "start_num"
and "stop_num" may be potentially freed until the next call.
So they should be put in the location which can survive across calls.
But previously they were not, and which could cause incorrect
behavior of generate_series(numeric, numeric). This commit fixes
this problem by copying them on multi_call_memory_ctx.

Andrew Gierth

Also add a comment about why regreesion.* aren't listed in .gitignore.

Jim Nasby

CRC computation is now done in XLogRecordAssemble.

Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).  This is mere
future-proofing in the context of the master branch, but commit
f6dc6dd5 requires it of older branches.

Etsuro Fujita

When starting up from a basebackup taken off a standby extra logic has
to be applied to compute the point where the data directory is
consistent. Normal base backups use a WAL record for that purpose, but
that isn't possible on a standby.

That logic had a error check ensuring that the cluster's control file
indicates being in recovery. Unfortunately that check was too strict,
disregarding the fact that the control file could also indicate that
the cluster was shut down while in recovery.

That's possible when the a cluster starting from a basebackup is shut
down before the backup label has been removed. When everything goes
well that's a short window, but when either restore_command or
primary_conninfo isn't configured correctly the window can get much
wider. That's because inbetween reading and unlinking the label we
restore the last checkpoint from WAL which can need additional WAL.

To fix simply also allow starting when the control file indicates
"shutdown in recovery". There's nicer fixes imaginable, but they'd be
more invasive.

Backpatch to 9.2 where support for taking basebackups from standbys
was added.

Per buildfarm member crake.  Back-patch to 9.4, where the TAP suites
were introduced.

Use SSPI authentication to allow connections exclusively from the OS
user that launched the test suite.  This closes on Windows the
vulnerability that commit be76a6d3
closed on other platforms.  Users of "make installcheck" or custom test
harnesses can run "pg_regress --config-auth=DATADIR" to activate the
same authentication configuration that "make check" would use.
Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).

Security: CVE-2014-0067

As with NOT NULL constraints, we consider that such constraints are merely
reports of constraints that are being enforced by the remote server (or
other underlying storage mechanism).  Their only real use is to allow
planner optimizations, for example in constraint-exclusion checks.  Thus,
the code changes here amount to little more than removal of the error that
was formerly thrown for applying CHECK to a foreign table.

(In passing, do a bit of cleanup of the ALTER FOREIGN TABLE reference page,
which had accumulated some weird decisions about ordering etc.)

Shigeru Hanada and Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and
Ashutosh Bapat.

The old pattern would match files with strange extensions like *.ry or
*.lpp. Refactor it to only include files with known extensions, and to make
it more readable.

Per Andrew Dunstan's suggestion.

Spotted by Álvaro Herrera.

Adam Brightwell, per report from Martín Marqués.

Add Windows versions of generated scripts, and make sure we only
ignore the scripts int he root directory.

Michael Paquier

Michael Paquier

Spotted by David Johnston

MapArrayTypeName would copy up to NAMEDATALEN-1 bytes of the base type
name, which of course is wrong: after prepending '_' there is only room for
NAMEDATALEN-2 bytes.  Aside from being the wrong result, this case would
lead to overrunning the statically allocated work buffer.  This would be a
security bug if the function were ever used outside bootstrap mode, but it
isn't, at least not in any currently supported branches.

Aside from fixing the off-by-one loop logic, this patch gets rid of the
static work buffer by having MapArrayTypeName pstrdup its result; the sole
caller was already doing that, so this just requires moving the pstrdup
call.  This saves a few bytes but mainly it makes the API a lot cleaner.

Back-patch on the off chance that there is some third-party code using
MapArrayTypeName with less-secure input.  Pushing pstrdup into the function
should not cause any serious problems for such hypothetical code; at worst
there might be a short term memory leak.

Per Coverity scanning.

Code added in 9.4 would attempt to divide by zero in such cases.
Noted while testing fix for missing-pclose problem.

If the called command fails to return data, runShellCommand forgot to
pclose() the pipe before returning.  This is fairly harmless in the current
code, because pgbench would then abandon further processing of that client
thread; so no more than nclients descriptors could be leaked this way.  But
it's not hard to imagine future improvements whereby that wouldn't be true.
In any case, it's sloppy coding, so patch all branches.  Found by Coverity.

Mostly these issues concern the non-use of function results. These
have been changed to use (void) pushJsonbValue(...) instead of assigning
the result to a variable that gets overwritten before it is used.

There is a larger issue that we should possibly examine the API for
pushJsonbValue(), so that instead of returning a value it modifies a
state argument. The current idiom is rather clumsy. However, changing
that requires quite a bit more work, so this change should do for the
moment.

Backpatch the applicable parts, just to make backpatching future patches
easier.

It does not include the possible full-page image. While at it, reformat the
comment slightly to make it more readable.

Reported by Rahila Syed

Noticed on a couple of Windows configurations.

Petr Jelinek, reviewed by Michael Paquier.

"PG_RETURN_FLOAT8(x)" is not "return x", except perhaps by accident
on some platforms.

Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Emre Hasegeli.

The ALTER SYSTEM ref page hadn't been held to a very high standard, nor
was the feature well integrated into section 18.1 (parameter setting).
Also, though commit 4c4654af had improved the structure of 18.1, it also
introduced a lot of poor wording, imprecision, and outright falsehoods.
Try to clean that up.

Set release date, do a final pass of wordsmithing, improve some other
new-in-9.4 documentation.

Fabrízio de Royes Mello reviewed by Rushabh Lathia.

Commit 815d71de hadn't bothered to update the documentation to match the
behavioral change, and a lot of other text in this section was badly in
need of copy-editing.

The code for advancing through the input rows overlooked the case that we
might already be past the first row of the row pair now being considered,
in case the previous percentile also fell between the same two input rows.

Report and patch by Andrew Gierth; logic rewritten a bit for clarity by me.

Mark Dilger

The planner seems to like to do this join query as a hash join, making
the output ordering machine-dependent; worse, it's a hash on OIDs, so
that it's a bit astonishing that the result doesn't change from run to
run even on one machine.  Add an ORDER BY to get consistent results.
Per buildfarm.

I also suppressed output from the final DROP SCHEMA CASCADE, to avoid
occasional failures similar to those fixed in commit 81d815dc.
That hasn't been observed in the buildfarm yet, but it seems likely
to happen in future if we leave it as-is.

The functions are:
    to_jsonb()
    jsonb_object()
    jsonb_build_object()
    jsonb_build_array()
    jsonb_agg()
    jsonb_object_agg()

Also along the way some better logic is implemented in
json_categorize_type() to match that in the newly implemented
jsonb_categorize_type().

Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Alvaro Herrera.