Create a shared function to convert a SPI error code into a string
(replacing near-duplicate code in several PLs), and use it anywhere
that a SPI function call error is reported.

machines, break tie scores by preferring shorter zone names over longer;
for names of equal length, prefer the alphabetically first name.  This
yields for example 'EST5EDT' not 'America/New_York' for US eastern time.
On Windows, abandon the whole concept of inspecting the detailed behavior
of the system TZ library, because it doesn't bear inspection :-(.  Instead
use a hardwired mapping table to select our zone name based on the
result of strftime %Z output.  Windows code from Magnus Hagander.

PostgresMain.  Per Magnus Hagander.

There are still some things that need refinement; in particular I fear
that the recognized set of error condition names probably has little in
common with what Oracle recognizes.  But it's a start.

>you will see changes for pg_config_paths.h and for thread safety.  Can
>you look at those changes, merge them into bcc.mak.  There might be
>other changes in there you want to add to bcc.mak too.
>
>
>
OK, having no M$ diff, I attach files src\interfaces\libpq\bcc32.mak and
src\interfaces\libpq\win32.h

Steve Holdoway

> * Allow point-in-time recovery to archive partially filled logs

possible to trap an error inside a function rather than letting it
propagate out to PostgresMain.  You still have to use AbortCurrentTransaction
to clean up, but at least the error handling itself will cooperate.

dates.  Per Magnus Hagander.

some massaging by Peter Eisentraut.  This is basically a simple
generalization of the existing contrib makefiles.

> * Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions

Devrim GUNDUZ

> * Allow server logs to be read using SQL commands
> * Allow server configuration parameters to be modified remotetly

followed by seeing EOF from client.  If we want a safe session-kill
capability we will need to write one, not break our error handling
mechanism.

Brian B.

password/group files.  Also allow read-only subtransactions of a read-write
parent, but not vice versa.  These are the reasonably noncontroversial
parts of Alvaro's recent mop-up patch, plus further work on large objects
to minimize use of the TopTransactionResourceOwner.

SAVEPOINT/RELEASE/ROLLBACK-TO syntax.  (Alvaro)
Cause COMMIT of a failed transaction to report ROLLBACK instead of
COMMIT in its command tag.  (Tom)
Fix a few loose ends in the nested-transactions stuff.

live backends, the archiver and stats processes never got sent a
kill signal.  They'd eventually exit on their own, but not for awhile,
which is a bit annoying when you are trying to replace the executable
file on a platform that doesn't allow removal of busy executables.
Also, tweak main loop logic so that we will perform the background
tasks after select() returns EINTR.

authorization.  Inspired by problem report from Ian Pilcher.

running as a service on windows <= 2000. Required to make the pg_ctl
service wrapper to work at all.

Magnus Hagander

discussion yesterday.  Also a few improvements in the associated
documentation.

items, and detailed text descriptions.