handling in SIGPIPE processing; avoid unnecessary pollution of application
link-symbol namespace; spell 'pointer to function' in the conventional
way.

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> 	o Fix problem with shared memory on the Win32 Terminal Server

> throughout to the spellings suggested by your book.

Great.

A follow-up patch for current CVS HEAD is attached, and available at
http://troels.arvin.dk/db/pgsql/conformance/pgsql-sql-conformance-
followup.patch

The patch
 - includes a core feature ID that had been left
   out by mistake (C011)
 - updates the sql_feature_packages.txt table to
   reflect changes in SQL:2003 which were not
   covered properly in my last patch

Troels Arvin

> > Windows service, it says you can use the -I and -R options.
> >
> > When I do that and I specify a password with '-P'
> (uppercase) then in
> > the registry it's saved as '-p' (lowercase) in the
> service-commandline
> > (ImagePath).

This was fixed in v1.21 of pg_autovacuum.c, That rev is tagged for
beta3, so you should not be seeing this issue unless you actually have
an older version for some reason.

http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_autovacuum/p
g_autovacuum.c.diff?r1=1.20;r2=1.21;f=h

> > Also it removes the quotes I added and I'm not so sure it
> would work
> > the way it's supposed to, without it.

It's not so much that it strips them (that happens automagically), more
that it doesn't re-add them when it writes the command line in the
registry. The attached patch fixes that by simply quoting all options
that may need it.
> > If you add DependOnService (a REG_MULTI_SZ an
> array-like-thingie) and
> > have the name (in this case: pgsql-8.0-beta2-dev3) of a service it
> > depends on, it will not fail to start (it will not even try, as
> > PostgreSQL is not running), when PostgreSQL already failed.
> >
> > Maybe it's an idea to specify it on the commandline (what
> service to
> > depend on).

A -E <service> option is added in the attached patch.

Dave Page

> seconds to 10 seconds. The original number was plucked from thin air
> some months ago, and I'd like to review that now based upon further
> thought, observation and experience.
>
> This change has little or no effect on performance, since the interval
> is there mainly to avoid repeated respawn attempts if archiver fails at
> startup. Archiver start-up time is very quick, so there is little danger
> of exceeding 10 seconds.
>
> On a busy system, if the archiver does die, then many files can build up
> in the 60 seconds before respawning. That xlog file backlog could take
> some time to clear. This then leaves a larger than normal window of data
> loss for a possibly long period.
>
> It's a minor change only, with no other effect on function.

Simon Riggs

John Hansen

the "ps" argument list on Unix - meaning that there is no way to
identify for example the stats processors or the bgwriter.

This patch adds this functionality, in a bit of a crufty way. It creates
a kernel Event object with the name of what would be in the title. This
can be viewed using for example Process Explorer.

It's been very handy for me during both debugging and using. I haven't
figured a better way, but perhaps someone has one that's less crufty? If
not, here is at least a working patch :-)

Magnus Hagander

the xml2 contrib module. It's against 8.0beta4. It's intended for
commit.

Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>

Roland Volkmann

very good practice IMHO, but apparently some people think so.

David Fetter

Kenneth Marshall

that readline must depend on libcurses, but it seems more recent ones
use libtermcap instead.  Allow that case.

	return "dynamic loading error";

> 	o Improve dlerror() reporting string

> * Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only queries
>
>   This is useful for checking PITR recovery.
>

reasons I outlined in pghackers a few days ago.

Also, undo someone's overly optimistic decision to reduce tuple state
checks from if (...) elog() to Asserts.  If I trusted this code more,
I might think it was a good idea to disable these checks in production
installations.  But I don't.

> * Fix psql's display of schema information (Neil)

handles that, and make solaris debug use no optimization.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira

calling applications.  This is done by blocking sigpipe in the libpq
thread and using sigpending/sigwait to possibily discard any sigpipe we
generated.

Michael Fuhr. Along the way, fix a bunch of accesses to uninitialized
memory, add a mystrdup() routine and use it to cleanup some code.

>
> * Allow FOR UPDATE queries to do NOWAIT locks
>

downloading CVS at cyclic.com site is long defunct, and I changed the text
to not overtly recommend CVS 1.10, a now fairly old version.

Jon Jensen

Jun Kuwamura

escapes --- they aren't simply quoted characters.  Problem noted by
Antti Salmela.  Also fix problem with incorrect handling of multibyte
characters when followed by a quantifier.

In particular, there was a mathematical tie between the two possible
nestloop-with-materialized-inner-scan plans for a join (ie, we computed
the same cost with either input on the inside), resulting in a roundoff
error driven choice, if the relations were both small enough to fit in
sort_mem.  Add a small cost factor to ensure we prefer materializing the
smaller input.  This changes several regression test plans, but with any
luck we will now have more stability across platforms.

Guillaume LELARGE

a relation's number of blocks, rather than the possibly-obsolete value
in pg_class.relpages.  Scale the value in pg_class.reltuples correspondingly
to arrive at a hopefully more accurate number of rows.  When pg_class
contains 0/0, estimate a tuple width from the column datatypes and divide
that into current file size to estimate number of rows.  This improved
methodology allows us to jettison the ancient hacks that put bogus default
values into pg_class when a table is first created.  Also, per a suggestion
from Simon, make VACUUM (but not VACUUM FULL or ANALYZE) adjust the value
it puts into pg_class.reltuples to try to represent the mean tuple density
instead of the minimal density that actually prevails just after VACUUM.
These changes alter the plans selected for certain regression tests, so
update the expected files accordingly.  (I removed join_1.out because
it's not clear if it still applies; we can add back any variant versions
as they are shown to be needed.)

> * Allow ecpg to work with MSVC and BCC

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