and implement OVERLAY() for bit strings and bytea.

In passing also convert text OVERLAY() to a true built-in, instead of
relying on a SQL function.

Leonardo F, reviewed by Kevin Grittner

regular applications. Also add a comment pointing out that tab-complition
for PREPARE TRANSACTION is missing on purpose.

You might think this is unnecessary since that interpreter is never used
to run code --- but it turns out that's wrong.  As of Tcl 8.5, the "clock"
command (alone among builtin Tcl commands) is partially implemented by
loaded-on-demand Tcl code, which means that it fails if there's not
unknown-command support, and also that it's impossible to run it directly
in a safe interpreter.  The way they get around the latter is that
Tcl_CreateSlave() automatically sets up an alias command that forwards any
execution of "clock" in a safe slave interpreter to its parent interpreter.
Thus, when attempting to execute "clock" in trusted pltcl, the command
actually executes in the "hold" interpreter, where it will fail if
unknown-command support hasn't been introduced by sourcing the standard
init.tcl script, which is done by Tcl_Init().  (This is a pretty dubious
design decision on the Tcl boys' part, if you ask me ... but they didn't.)

Back-patch all the way.  It's not clear that anyone would try to use ancient
versions of pltcl with a recent Tcl, but it's not clear they wouldn't, either.
Also add a regression test using "clock", in branches that have regression
test support for pltcl.

Per recent trouble report from Kyle Bateman.

(SFRM_Materialize mode) to return tuples. Since we don't return from the
dblink function in tuplestore mode, release the PGresult with a PG_CATCH
block on error. Also rearrange to share the same code to materialize the
tuplestore. Patch by Takahiro Itagaki.

AbortTransaction or AbortSubTransaction, when trying to clean up after an
error that prevented (sub)transaction start from completing:
* access to TopTransactionResourceOwner that might not exist
* assert failure in AtEOXact_GUC, if AtStart_GUC not called yet
* assert failure or core dump in AfterTriggerEndSubXact, if
  AfterTriggerBeginSubXact not called yet

Per testing by injecting elog(ERROR) at successive steps in StartTransaction
and StartSubTransaction.  It's not clear whether all of these cases could
really occur in the field, but at least one of them is easily exposed by
simple stress testing, as per my accidental discovery yesterday.

the various disk-size-reporting functions will respond to query cancel
reasonably promptly even in very large databases.  Per report from
Kevin Grittner.

with errdetail(). Add errhint() to suggest retry in certain cases.

woken by alarm we send SIGUSR1 to all backends requesting that they
check to see if they are blocking Startup process. If so, they throw
ERROR/FATAL as for other conflict resolutions. Deadlock stop gap
removed. max_standby_delay = -1 option removed to prevent deadlock.

Now require gmake 3.79.1 or later to build source/sgml.

Thanks to Devrim Gunduz for the report.

I failed to 'cvs add' the new files and also neglected to bump catversion.

Attributes can now have options, just as relations and tablespaces do, and
the reloptions code is used to parse, validate, and store them.  For
simplicity and because these options are not performance critical, we store
them in a separate cache rather than the main relcache.

Thanks to Alex Hunsaker for the review.

documentation.

Also cleaned up some redundancies between the primary error messages and the
error context in PL/Python.

Hannu Valtonen

Applied patch by Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at> to fix problem in auto-prepare mode if the connection is closed and re-opened and the previously prepared query is issued again.

PQescapeLiteral is similar to PQescapeStringConn, but it relieves the
caller of the need to know how large the output buffer should be, and
it provides the appropriate quoting (in addition to escaping special
characers within the string).  PQescapeIdentifier provides similar
functionality for escaping identifiers.

Per recent discussion with Tom Lane.

from description of triggers with WHEN clause.

Thanks to Brad T. Sliger for the review.

Discuss the reasons for the lock type we hold on ProcArrayLock while deriving
the conflict list. Cover the idea of false positive conflicts and seemingly
strange effects on snapshot derivation.

we *must* generate probes.o or the dtrace probes don't work.  Revert our
workaround for their previous bug.  Details at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557266

This extends the existing pg_service.conf facility to first look for a
service definition file in the user's home directory.

moving files around.

that would've been WAL-logged if archiving was enabled. If we encounter
such records in archive recovery anyway, we know that some data is
missing from the log. A WARNING is emitted in that case.

Original patch by Fujii Masao, with changes by me.

binary, revert PGDLLIMPORT decoration of global variables. I'm not sure
if there's any real harm from unnecessary PGDLLIMPORTs, but these are all
internal variables that external modules really shouldn't be messing
with. ThisTimeLineID still needs PGDLLIMPORT.

Fujii Masao

has been renamed.

has been renamed.

walreceiver as whole into a dynamically loaded module, split the
libpq-specific parts of it into dynamically loaded module and keep the rest
in the main backend binary.

Although Tom fixed the Windows compilation problems with the old walreceiver
module already, this is a cleaner division of labour and makes the code
more readable. There's also the prospect of adding new transport methods
as pluggable modules in the future, which this patch makes easier, though for
now the API between libpqwalreceiver and walreceiver process should be
considered private.

The libpq-specific module is now in src/backend/replication/libpqwalreceiver,
and the part linked with postgres binary is in
src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c.

name already exists, so we'd get an error message about a "type" instead
of about a "relation", because the composite type code shares code with
relation creation.

    quote_literal, quote_nullable, quote_ident,
    encode_bytea, decode_bytea, looks_like_number,
    encode_array_literal, encode_array_constructor.
Split SPI.xs into two - SPI.xs now contains only SPI functions. Remainder
are in new Util.xs.
Some more code and documentation cleanup along the way, as well as
adding some CVS markers to files missing them.

Original patch from Tim Bunce, with a little editing from me.

Modify the "Escaping Strings for Inclusion in SQL Commands" section
to use a <variablelist> as the preceding and following sections do,
and merge the "Escaping Binary Strings for Inclusion in SQL Commands"
section into it.

This changes only the formatting of these sections, not the content.
It is intended to lay the groundwork for a follow-on patch to add
some new escaping functions, but it makes sense to commit this first,
for clarity.

dump IDs, because the array we're using is sized according to the highest
dump ID actually defined in the archive file.  In a partial dump there could
be references to higher dump IDs that weren't dumped.  Treat these the same
as references to in-range IDs that weren't dumped.  (The whole thing is a
bit scary because the missing objects might have been part of dependency
chains, which we won't know about.  Not much we can do though --- throwing
an error is probably overreaction.)

Also, reject parallel restore with pre-1.8 archive version (made by pre-8.0
pg_dump).  In these old versions the dependency entries are OIDs, not dump
IDs, and we don't have enough information to interpret them.

Per bug #5288 from Jon Erdman.

when the planner splits apart a ROW(...) IS NULL test, the argisrow values
of the component tests have to be determined from the component field types,
not copied from the original NullTest (in which argisrow is surely true).