This is more efficient and simpler . It does mean that an untyped NULL
can no longer be used in such cases, which should be mentioned in
Release Notes, but doesn't seem a terrible loss. The workaround is to
cast the NULL to some array type.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Jeevan Chalke.

This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script.  Also update
pgindent instructions.

In most cases, these were just references to the SQL standard in
general.  In a few cases, a contrast was made between SQL92 and later
standards -- those have been kept unchanged.

This change adds some more standard sprintf() functionality to format().

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Dean Rasheed and Kyotaro Horiguchi

Previously, the VARIADIC labeling was effectively ignored, but now these
functions act as though the array elements had all been given as separate
arguments.

Pavel Stehule

Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and
legal.sgml files.

This fix removes an unnecessary incompatibility with the old behavior of
the unix_socket_directory parameter.  Since pathnames with embedded spaces
are fairly popular on some platforms, the incompatibility could be
significant in practice.  We'll still strip unquoted leading/trailing
spaces, however.

No docs update since the documentation already implied that it worked
like this.

Per bug #7514 from Murray Cumming.

Replace unix_socket_directory with unix_socket_directories, which is a list
of socket directories, and adjust postmaster's code to allow zero or more
Unix-domain sockets to be created.

This is mostly a straightforward change, but since the Unix sockets ought
to be created after the TCP/IP sockets for safety reasons (better chance
of detecting a port number conflict), AddToDataDirLockFile needs to be
fixed to support out-of-order updates of data directory lockfile lines.
That's a change that had been foreseen to be necessary someday anyway.

Honza Horak, reviewed and revised by Tom Lane

commit-fest.

Previously, casts to name could generate invalidly-encoded results.

Also, make these functions match namein() more exactly, by consistently
using palloc0() instead of ad-hoc zeroing code.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

Karl Schnaitter and Tom Lane

Per mailing list discussion, we would like to keep the bytea functions
parallel to the text functions, so rename bytea_agg to string_agg,
which already exists for text.

Also, to satisfy the rule that we don't want aggregate functions of
the same name with a different number of arguments, add a delimiter
argument, just like string_agg for text already has.

Pavel Stehule

Pavel Stehule

Remove some dead code, conditionally declare some items or call
some code, and fix one or two declarations.

Per bug #6181 from Itagaki Takahiro.  Also do some marginal code cleanup
and improve error handling.

Use something like "error code %lu" for reporting GetLastError()
values on Windows.  Previously, a mix of different wordings and
formats were in use.

In the passing, clarify the comment on why text_format_nv wrapper is needed.

There is not yet support in initdb to populate the pg_collation
catalog, but if that is done manually, the rest should work.

pg_newlocale_from_collation does not have enough context to give an error
message that's even a little bit useful, so move the responsibility for
complaining up to its callers.  Also, reword ERRCODE_INDETERMINATE_COLLATION
error messages in a less jargony, more message-style-guide-compliant
fashion.

This adds collation support for columns and domains, a COLLATE clause
to override it per expression, and B-tree index support.

Peter Eisentraut
reviewed by Pavel Stehule, Itagaki Takahiro, Robert Haas, Noah Misch

We can get the length of a compressed or out-of-line datum without actually
detoasting it.  If the lengths of two strings are unequal, we can then
conclude they are unequal without detoasting.  That saves considerable work
in an admittedly less-common case, without costing anything much when the
optimization doesn't apply.

Noah Misch

It appears that this will be faster for all but the shortest strings;
at least one some platforms, memcmp() can use word-at-a-time comparisons.

Noah Misch, somewhat pared down.

Currently, three conversion format specifiers are supported: %s for a
string, %L for an SQL literal, and %I for an SQL identifier.  The latter
two are deliberately designed not to overlap with what sprintf() already
supports, in case we want to add more of sprintf()'s functionality here
later.

Patch by Pavel Stehule, heavily revised by me.  Reviewed by Jeff Janes
and, in earlier versions, by Itagaki Takahiro and Tom Lane.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by me.

better handling of NULL elements within the arrays.  The third parameter
is a string that should be used to represent a NULL element, or should
be translated into a NULL element, respectively.  If the third parameter
is NULL it behaves the same as the two-parameter form.

There are two incompatible changes in the behavior of the two-parameter form
of string_to_array.  First, it will return an empty (zero-element) array
rather than NULL when the input string is of zero length.  Second, if the
field separator is NULL, the function splits the string into individual
characters, rather than returning NULL as before.  These two changes make
this form fully compatible with the behavior of the new three-parameter form.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Brendan Jurd

functionality, while creating an ambiguity in usage with ORDER BY that at
least two people have already gotten seriously confused by.  Also, add an
opr_sanity test to check that we don't in future violate the newly minted
policy of not having built-in aggregates with the same name and different
numbers of parameters.  Per discussion of a complaint from Thom Brown.

being called as aggregates, and to get the aggregate transition state memory
context if needed.  Use it instead of poking directly into AggState and
WindowAggState in places that shouldn't know so much.

We should have done this in 8.4, probably, but better late than never.

Revised version of a patch by Hitoshi Harada.

the input values into a string. The two argument version also does the same
thing, but inserts delimiters between elements.

Original patch by Pavel Stehule, reviewed by David E. Wheeler and me.

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

Both hex format and the traditional "escape" format are automatically
handled on input.  The output format is selected by the new GUC variable
bytea_output.

As committed, bytea_output defaults to HEX, which is an *incompatible
change*.  We will keep it this way for awhile for testing purposes, but
should consider whether to switch to the more backwards-compatible
default of ESCAPE before 8.5 is released.

Peter Eisentraut