the data defining the semantics of a lock method (ie, conflict resolution
table and ancillary data, which is all constant) and the hash tables
storing the current state.  The only thing we give up by this is the
ability to use separate hashtables for different lock methods, but there
is no need for that anyway.  Put some extra fields into the LockMethod
definition structs to clean up some other uglinesses, like hard-wired
tests for DEFAULT_LOCKMETHOD and USER_LOCKMETHOD.  This commit doesn't
do anything about the performance issues we were discussing, but it clears
away some of the underbrush that's in the way of fixing that.

> * Teodor is Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

< * Claudio is Claudio Natoli <claudio.natoli@memetrics.com>
1166d1164
< * Hiroshi is Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>

postgres problems due to readline.  The attached patch replaces that
section of it with better ways of handling the problem.

Seneca Cunningham

DROP CONSTRAINT

    This form drops constraints on a table. Currently, constraints on tables
    are not required to have unique names, so there may be more than one
    constraint matching the specified name. All matching constraints will be
    dropped.

To my knowledge, it is no longer possible to create constraints with the
same name for the same relation. When you create a constraint and specify
the same name explictly, an error is raised. Implicit constraint creation
won't choose an existing name either and up to now you could not rename a
constraint. Renaming works with the patch I sent in a few hours ago but this
patch as well won't allow constraints with identical names on the same
relation.

The attached patch thus removes the note in the docs.

Joachim Wieland

> Now, the arguments of the drop function can be tab completed. for example
>
> drop function strpos (
> <press tab>
> drop FUNCTION strpos (text, text)
>
> or:
>
> wsdb=# drop FUNCTION length (
> bit)        bytea)      character)  lseg)       path)       text)
> <press c>
> wsdb# DROP FUNCTION length ( character)
>
> I think that this patch should be rather useful. At it least I hate
> always to type all the arguments of the dropped functions.
>
> 2) Also some fixes applied for the
> CREATE INDEX syntax
>
> now the parenthesises are inserted by tab pressing.
> suppose I have the table q3c:

Sergey E. Koposov

Also, better mark section headings.

kdio@uenf.br

error.  This probably explains bug #2099 and could also account for
mysterious VACUUM hangups.

support for the dbf2pg contrib module.

The submitter created a patch which replaces the silent ignoring of -F
(when iconv support is disabled) with a meaningful warning.

Martin Pitt

that are the same as column names used in the function.

I have the problem, when building by MS-VC6.
An error occurs in the 8.1.0 present source codes.

nmake -f win32.mak
..\..\port\getaddrinfo.c(244) : error C2065: 'WSA_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY'
..\..\port\getaddrinfo.c(342) : error C2065: 'WSATYPE_NOT_FOUND'

This is used by winsock2.h. However, Construction of a windows base is
winsock.h.
Then, Since MinGW has special environment, this is right. but, it is not
found in VC6.
Furthermore, in getaddrinfo.c, IPV6-API is used by
LoadLibraryA("ws2_32");
Referring to of dll the external memory generates this violation by VC6
specification.

I considered whether the whole should have been converted into winsock2.
However, Now, DLL of MinGW creation operates wonderfully as it is.
That's right, it has pliability by replacement of simple DLL.
Then, I propose the system using winsock(non IPV6) in construction of
VC6.

Hiroshi Saito

_bt_checkkeys(), instead of checking it in the top-level nbtree.c routines
as formerly.  This saves a little bit of loop overhead, but more importantly
it lets us skip performing the index key comparisons for dead tuples.

checks, which were once needed because PageGetMaxOffsetNumber would
fail on empty pages, but are now just redundant.  Also, don't set up
local variables that aren't needed in the fast path --- most of the
time, we only need to advance offnum and not step across a page boundary.
Motivated by noticing _bt_step at the top of OProfile profile for a
pgbench run.

<   at initdb time or optionally later.
>   at initdb time or optionally later.  Consider O_SYNC when
>   O_DIRECT exists.

 - allow ~ in filenames
 - -8.2.1 now is '-' and '8.2.1' instead of '-8.2' '.' '3'
 - '.text' now is not a file

SLRU area.  The number of slots is still a compile-time constant (someday
we might want to change that), but at least it's a different constant for
each SLRU area.  Increase number of subtrans buffers to 32 based on
experimentation with a heavily subtrans-bashing test case, and increase
number of multixact member buffers to 16, since it's obviously silly for
it not to be at least twice the number of multixact offset buffers.

> * Add GUC variable to run a command on database panic or
>   smart/fast/immediate shutdown

file.  Backpatch to 8.1.X.

Paul Lindner

non-ascii                       convert to & escapes

the latest release notes there is a latin1 character that shouldn't be
there so I made a patch to fix that. This patch also fixes some old
entries that uses o instead of ö (which is also wrong but not as
bad as including a latin1 character in the sgml file).

Dennis Bj?rklund