Reported by Kevin Hale Boyes

This value, now pg_stat_all_tables.n_mod_since_analyze, was already
tracked and used by autovacuum, but not exposed to the user.

Mark Kirkwood, review by Laurenz Albe

Backpatch to 9.3.
Idea from Craig Ringer

In 9.3, there's no particular limit on the number of bgworkers;
instead, we just count up the number that are actually registered,
and use that to set MaxBackends.  However, that approach causes
problems for Hot Standby, which needs both MaxBackends and the
size of the lock table to be the same on the standby as on the
master, yet it may not be desirable to run the same bgworkers in
both places.  9.3 handles that by failing to notice the problem,
which will probably work fine in nearly all cases anyway, but is
not theoretically sound.

A further problem with simply counting the number of registered
workers is that new workers can't be registered without a
postmaster restart.  This is inconvenient for administrators,
since bouncing the postmaster causes an interruption of service.
Moreover, there are a number of applications for background
processes where, by necessity, the background process must be
started on the fly (e.g. parallel query).  While this patch
doesn't actually make it possible to register new background
workers after startup time, it's a necessary prerequisite.

Patch by me.  Review by Michael Paquier.

BGWORKER_BACKEND_DATABASE_CONNECTION can only be used if
BGWORKER_SHMEM_ACCESS is also used.

Michael Paquier, with some tweaks by me.

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>

Treat TOAST index just the same as normal one and get the OID
of TOAST index from pg_index but not pg_class.reltoastidxid.
This change allows us to handle multiple TOAST indexes, and
which is required infrastructure for upcoming
REINDEX CONCURRENTLY feature.

Patch by Michael Paquier, reviewed by Andres Freund and me.

Improve documentation for usagecount and relforknumber.
Backpatch to 9.3.
Suggestion from Satoshi Nagayasu

Specifically, permit attaching them to the error in RAISE and retrieving
them from a caught error in GET STACKED DIAGNOSTICS.  RAISE enforces
nothing about the content of the fields; for its purposes, they are just
additional string fields.  Consequently, clarify in the protocol and
libpq documentation that the usual relationships between error fields,
like a schema name appearing wherever a table name appears, are not
universal.  This freedom has other applications; consider a FDW
propagating an error from an RDBMS having no schema support.

Back-patch to 9.3, where core support for the error fields was
introduced.  This prevents the confusion of having a release where libpq
exposes the fields and PL/pgSQL does not.

Pavel Stehule, lexical revisions by Noah Misch.

The web site is dead, and the Wayback Machine shows that it didn't have
much useful content before.

Make it easier for readers of the FP docs to find out about possibly
truncated values.

Per complaint from Tom Duffey in message
F0E0F874-C86F-48D1-AA2A-0C5365BF5118@trillitech.com

Author: Albe Laurenz
Reviewed by: Abhijit Menon-Sen

SnapshotNow scans have the undesirable property that, in the face of
concurrent updates, the scan can fail to see either the old or the new
versions of the row.  In many cases, we work around this by requiring
DDL operations to hold AccessExclusiveLock on the object being
modified; in some cases, the existing locking is inadequate and random
failures occur as a result.  This commit doesn't change anything
related to locking, but will hopefully pave the way to allowing lock
strength reductions in the future.

The major issue has held us back from making this change in the past
is that taking an MVCC snapshot is significantly more expensive than
using a static special snapshot such as SnapshotNow.  However, testing
of various worst-case scenarios reveals that this problem is not
severe except under fairly extreme workloads.  To mitigate those
problems, we avoid retaking the MVCC snapshot for each new scan;
instead, we take a new snapshot only when invalidation messages have
been processed.  The catcache machinery already requires that
invalidation messages be sent before releasing the related heavyweight
lock; else other backends might rely on locally-cached data rather
than scanning the catalog at all.  Thus, making snapshot reuse
dependent on the same guarantees shouldn't break anything that wasn't
already subtly broken.

Patch by me.  Review by Michael Paquier and Andres Freund.

On Unix, you can embed double-quotes in single-quotes, and via versa.
However, on Windows, you can only escape double-quotes in double-quotes,
so use that in the pg_dump -t/table example.
Backpatch to 9.3.
Report from Mike Toews

Add ability for to_char() to output the timezone's UTC offset (OF).  We
already have the ability to return the timezone abbeviation (TZ/tz).
Per request from Andrew Dunstan

Allow constraint attributes to be altered,
so the default setting of NOT DEFERRABLE
can be altered to DEFERRABLE and back.

Review by Abhijit Menon-Sen

-h (help) is not needed;  pg_upgrade already supports --help and -?,
which is consistent with other tools.

Previous code had old/new prefixes on option values, e.g.
--old-datadir=OLDDATADIR.  Remove them, for simplicity;  now:
--old-datadir=DATADIR.  Also update docs to do the same.

On immediate shutdown, or during a restart-after-crash sequence,
postmaster used to send SIGQUIT (and then abandon ship if shutdown); but
this is not a good strategy if backends don't die because of that
signal.  (This might happen, for example, if a backend gets tangled
trying to malloc() due to gettext(), as in an example illustrated by
MauMau.)  This causes problems when later trying to restart the server,
because some processes are still attached to the shared memory segment.

Instead of just abandoning such backends to their fates, we now have
postmaster hang around for a little while longer, send a SIGKILL after
some reasonable waiting period, and then exit.  This makes immediate
shutdown more reliable.

There is disagreement on whether it's best for postmaster to exit after
sending SIGKILL, or to stick around until all children have reported
death.  If this controversy is resolved differently than what this patch
implements, it's an easy change to make.

Bug reported by MauMau in message 20DAEA8949EC4E2289C6E8E58560DEC0@maumau

MauMau and Álvaro Herrera

Change -u (user) option to -U, for consistency with other tools like
pg_dump and psql.  Also expand --user to --username, again for
consistency.
BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY

I added some more functionality to it in 0ac5ad51 but neglected to
add it to the docs.

Per Peter Eisentraut in message
1367112171.32604.4.camel@vanquo.pezone.net

I introduced these new fields in 0ac5ad51 but neglected to add them
to the system catalogs section of the docs.

Per Thom Brown in message
CAA-aLv7UiO=Whiq3MVbsEqSyQRthuX8Tb_RLyBuQt0KQBp=6EQ@mail.gmail.com

Thanks to MauMau <maumau307@gmail.com> for finding and fixing this.

Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Fabrízio de Royes Mello, with some further
changes by me

Adjust the wording in the first para of "Sequence Manipulation Functions"
so that neither of the link phrases in it break across line boundaries,
in either A4- or US-page-size PDF output.  This fixes a reported build
failure for the 9.3beta2 A4 PDF docs, and future-proofs this particular
para against causing similar problems in future.  (Perhaps somebody will
fix this issue in the SGML/TeX documentation tool chain someday, but I'm
not holding my breath.)

Back-patch to all supported branches, since the same problem could rise up
to bite us in future updates if anyone changes anything earlier than this
in func.sgml.

Back-patch to all supported versions.

Laurenz Albe

of sporadic seg faults from various build farm members.

Allow constraint attributes to be altered,
so the default setting of NOT DEFERRABLE
can be altered to DEFERRABLE and back.

Review by Abhijit Menon-Sen

If there is no <date> element, the publication date for the EPUB
manifest is taken from the copyright year.  But something like
"1996-2013" is not a legal date specification.  So the EPUB output
currently fails epubcheck.

Put in a separate <date> element with the current year.  Put it in
legal.sgml, because copyright.pl already instructs to update that
manually, so it hopefully won't be missed.

Most of the documentation uses "single-user mode", so use that in the
code as well.  Adjust the documentation to match the new error message
wording.  Also add a documentation index entry for "single-user mode".
Based-on-patch-by: NJeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>

More languages than SQL and PL/pgSQL actually support parameter names.

Patch by Simon Riggs, reviewed by Jeff Janes and me.

ALTER TABLE .. VALIDATE CONSTRAINT previously
gave incorrect details about lock levels and
therefore incomplete reasons to use the option.

Initial bug report and fix from Marko Tiikkaja
Reworded by me to include comments by Kevin Grittner

This makes it easier to write custom scripts that have different logic for
each client.

Gurjeet Singh, with some changes by me.

Extend the FDW API (which we already changed for 9.3) so that an FDW can
report whether specific foreign tables are insertable/updatable/deletable.
The default assumption continues to be that they're updatable if the
relevant executor callback function is supplied by the FDW, but finer
granularity is now possible.  As a test case, add an "updatable" option to
contrib/postgres_fdw.

This patch also fixes the information_schema views, which previously did
not think that foreign tables were ever updatable, and fixes
view_is_auto_updatable() so that a view on a foreign table can be
auto-updatable.

initdb forced due to changes in information_schema views and the functions
they rely on.  This is a bit unfortunate to do post-beta1, but if we don't
change this now then we'll have another API break for FDWs when we do
change it.

Dean Rasheed, somewhat editorialized on by Tom Lane

Per discussion  on -hackers. We treat Unicode escapes when unescaping
them similarly to the way we treat them in PostgreSQL string literals.
Escapes in the ASCII range are always accepted, no matter what the
database encoding. Escapes for higher code points are only processed in
UTF8 databases, and attempts to process them in other databases will
result in an error. \u0000 is never unescaped, since it would result in
an impermissible null byte.

Patch by me, reviewed by Tatsuo Ishii.

lo_read()/lo_write() in libpq to avoid confusion.