with the recent largeobject cosmetic fixes. Jeremy Drake.

Jeremy Drake

Kris Jurka

code path in tablecmds.c that wasn't exercised at all before.

text[], int4[], Tsearch2 support for GIN.

during parse analysis, not only errors detected in the flex/bison stages.
This is per my earlier proposal.  This commit includes all the basic
infrastructure, but locations are only tracked and reported for errors
involving column references, function calls, and operators.  More could
be done later but this seems like a good set to start with.  I've also
moved the ReportSyntaxErrorPosition logic out of psql and into libpq,
which should make it available to more people --- even within psql this
is an improvement because warnings weren't handled by ReportSyntaxErrorPosition.

particular get rid of single quotes around language names and old WITH ()
construct.

required by the SQL standard, and TABLESPACE is useful functionality.
Patch from Kris Jurka, minor editorialization by Neil Conway.

Replace the former ad-hoc implementation used in the regression tests.
Joachim Wieland

argument as a 'regclass' value instead of a text string.  The frontend
conversion of text string to pg_class OID is now encapsulated as an
implicitly-invocable coercion from text to regclass.  This provides
backwards compatibility to the old behavior when the sequence argument
is explicitly typed as 'text'.  When the argument is just an unadorned
literal string, it will be taken as 'regclass', which means that the
stored representation will be an OID.  This solves longstanding problems
with renaming sequences that are referenced in default expressions, as
well as new-in-8.1 problems with renaming such sequences' schemas or
moving them to another schema.  All per recent discussion.
Along the way, fix some rather serious problems in dbmirror's support
for mirroring sequence operations (int4 vs int8 confusion for instance).

function that actually sleeps, instead of busy-waiting.  Perhaps this
will resolve some of the intermittent stats failures we keep seeing.

literally.

Add GUC variables:

        "escape_string_warning" - warn about backslashes in non-E strings
        "escape_string_syntax" - supports E'' syntax?
        "standard_compliant_strings" - treats backslashes literally in ''

Update code to use E'' when escapes are used.

updated the expected/ output, not the output/ output. Apologies.

functions with OUT parameters.  The various PLs still need work, as does
pg_dump.  Rudimentary docs and regression tests included.

Andrew Dunstan

clause implicitly whenever one is not given explicitly.  Remove concept
of a schema having an associated tablespace, and simplify the rules for
selecting a default tablespace for a table or index.  It's now just
(a) explicit TABLESPACE clause; (b) default_tablespace if that's not an
empty string; (c) database's default.  This will allow pg_dump to use
SET commands instead of tablespace clauses to determine object locations
(but I didn't actually make it do so).  All per recent discussions.

There are various things left to do: contrib dbsize and oid2name modules
need work, and so does the documentation.  Also someone should think about
COMMENT ON TABLESPACE and maybe RENAME TABLESPACE.  Also initlocation is
dead, it just doesn't know it yet.

Gavin Sherry and Tom Lane.

sequences, as per recent discussion.  All these names are now of the
form table_column_type, with digits added if needed to make them unique.
Default constraint names are chosen to be unique across their whole schema,
not just within the parent object, so as to be more SQL-spec-compatible
and make the information schema views more useful.

rather than allowing them only in a few special cases as before.  In
particular you can now pass a ROW() construct to a function that accepts
a rowtype parameter.  Internal generation of RowExprs fixes a number of
corner cases that used to not work very well, such as referencing the
whole-row result of a JOIN or subquery.  This represents a further step in
the work I started a month or so back to make rowtype values into
first-class citizens.

results with tuples as ordinary varlena Datums.  This commit does not
in itself do much for us, except eliminate the horrid memory leak
associated with evaluation of whole-row variables.  However, it lays the
groundwork for allowing composite types as table columns, and perhaps
some other useful features as well.  Per my proposal of a few days ago.

errors in internally-generated queries, such as those submitted by
plpgsql functions.  Per recent discussions with Fabien Coelho.

discussions.  Patch by Fabien Coelho and Tom Lane.  Still needs to be
taught about multi-screen-column kanji characters; Tatsuo has promised
to provide the needed infrastructure for that.

message that is reporting a prechecking error in a SQL function.
This is to cue client-side code that the syntax error position,
if any, is with respect to the function body and not the outer command.

any amount of leading or trailing whitespace (where "whitespace"
is defined by isspace()). This is for SQL conformance, as well
as consistency with other numeric types (e.g. oid, numeric).

Also refactor pg_atoi() to avoid looking at errno where not
necessary, and add a bunch of regression tests for the input
to these types.

discussed on pghackers.

message editing.

- LIKE <subtable> [ INCLUDING DEFAULTS | EXCLUDING DEFAULTS ]
- Quick cleanup of analyze.c function prototypes.
- New non-reserved keywords (INCLUDING, EXCLUDING, DEFAULTS), SQL 200X

Opted not to extend for check constraints at this time.

As per the definition that it's user defined columns, OIDs are NOT
inherited.

Doc and Source patches attached.

--
Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

for grammar-detected problems.  Revert Makefile hack that kept it looking
like the pre-bison-1.875 output.

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?