area...

introducing new 'FastList' list-construction subroutines to use in
hot spots.  This avoids the O(N^2) behavior of repeated lappend's
by keeping a tail pointer, while not changing behavior by reversing
list order as the lcons() method would do.

in initdb will result in exit(1), allowing the initdb script to realize
that there's something wrong.

of order; the 'server log' output is actually client output in these
scenarios and we ought to treat elevels the same way as in the client
case.  This allows initdb to not send backend stderr to /dev/null anymore,
which makes it much more likely that people will notice problems during
initdb.

of an index can now be a computed expression instead of a simple variable.
Restrictions on expressions are the same as for predicates (only immutable
functions, no sub-selects).  This fixes problems recently introduced with
inlining SQL functions, because the inlining transformation is applied to
both expression trees so the planner can still match them up.  Along the
way, improve efficiency of handling index predicates (both predicates and
index expressions are now cached by the relcache) and fix 7.3 oversight
that didn't record dependencies of predicate expressions.

users can't turn it off.

docs that CLIENT/LOG_MIN_MESSAGES now controls debug_* output location.
Doc changes included.

sanely with running out of memory for a query result.

advertised in RowDescription message.  Depending on the physical tuple's
column count is not really correct, since according to heap_getattr()
conventions the tuple may be short some columns, which will automatically
get read as nulls.  Problem has been latent since forever, but was only
exposed by recent change to skip a projection step in SELECT * FROM...

blanks, in hopes of reducing the surprise factor for newbies.  Remove
redundant operators for VARCHAR (it depends wholly on TEXT operations now).
Clean up resolution of ambiguous operators/functions to avoid surprising
choices for domains: domains are treated as equivalent to their base types
and binary-coercibility is no longer considered a preference item when
choosing among multiple operators/functions.  IsBinaryCoercible now correctly
reflects the notion that you need *only* relabel the type to get from type
A to type B: that is, a domain is binary-coercible to its base type, but
not vice versa.  Various marginal cleanup, including merging the essentially
duplicate resolution code in parse_func.c and parse_oper.c.  Improve opr_sanity
regression test to understand about binary compatibility (using pg_cast),
and fix a couple of small errors in the catalogs revealed thereby.
Restructure "special operator" handling to fetch operators via index opclasses
rather than hardwiring assumptions about names (cleans up the pattern_ops
stuff a little).

single-byte encodings, and a direct C implementation of the single-argument
forms (where spaces are always what gets trimmed).  This is in preparation
for using rtrim1() as the bpchar-to-text cast operator, but is a useful
performance improvement even if we decide not to do that.

independently of whether the struct tm tm_zone member exists.
Also run autoheader, which seems not to have been done lately;
it added about three more things to pg_config.h.in than I was expecting...

example from Rao Kumar.  This is a very corner corner-case, requiring
a minimum of three closely-spaced database crashes and an unlucky
positioning of the second recovery's checkpoint record before you'd notice
any problem.  But the consequences are dire enough that it's a must-fix.

ecpg now recognizes named structs/unions. So you don't have to list the whole definition everytime you declare a variable anymore.

qualified when necessary, simplify argument-printing code.

views.

Ross Reedstrom, a couple months back) and to detect timezones that are
using leap-second timekeeping.  The unknown-zone-name test is pretty
heuristic and ugly, but it seems better than the old behavior of just
switching to GMT given a bad name.  Also make DecodePosixTimezone() a
tad more robust.

Greg Sabino Mullane