A new system catalog pg_largeobject_metadata manages
ownership and access privileges of large objects.

KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Jaime Casanova.

Support arrays as parameters and return values of PL/Python functions.

pg_ctl gets a new mode that runs initdb.  Adjust the documentation a bit to
not assume that initdb is the only way to run database cluster initialization.
But don't replace initdb as the canonical way.

Author: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>

7.4.27.

more up-to-date with current versions.

GNU site for gettext.

git mirror.

Remove information about cvsup and documentation that's more about cvs
than our use of cvs.

Backpatch to 8.4 so we get the git information up on the website as
soon as possible.

support any indexable commutative operator, not just equality.  Two rows
violate the exclusion constraint if "row1.col OP row2.col" is TRUE for
each of the columns in the constraint.

Jeff Davis, reviewed by Robert Haas

Add a sentence of documentation about the differences between the
*_privileges and the role_*_grants views.

by aborting a subtransaction.  Per discussion with Heikki.

Apply full patch to enable thread-safety by default, e.g. doc changes.

to the client by the server.  This might seem pretty pointless but apparently
it will help pgbouncer, and perhaps other connection poolers.  Anyway it's
practically free to do so for the normal use-case where appname is only set
in the startup packet --- we're just adding a few more bytes to the initial
ParameterStatus response packet.  Per comments from Marko Kreen.

Add ProcessUtility_hook() to handle all DDL to
contrib/pg_stat_statements.

Add ProcessUtility_hook() to handle all DDL to contrib/pg_stat_statements.

Itagaki Takahiro

Update hstore docs, mostly word-smithing.

David E. Wheeler

branch, which is how most actual code is actually structured.  Also fix
slight whitespace misalignment.

being hidden when current_query is.  Relocate it to a column position
more consistent with that behavior.  Per discussion.

Joshua Tolley, reviewed by Brendan Jurd and Tim Bunce

pg_stat_activity and recorded in log entries.

Dave Page, reviewed by Andres Freund

Add link to exteran fsync testing script and our fsync test tool.

vacuum.

the time, rather than hoping we can tell whether the terminal supports
UTF8 characters.  Per discussion.

Author: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>

Author: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>

a bit more consistent and less obviously written by different people at
different times.

in the formerly-always-blank columns just to left and right of the data.
Different marking is used for a line break caused by a newline in the data
than for a straight wraparound.  A newline break is signaled by a "+" in the
right margin column in ASCII mode, or a carriage return arrow in UNICODE mode.
Wraparound is signaled by a dot in the right margin as well as the following
left margin in ASCII mode, or an ellipsis symbol in the same places in UNICODE
mode.  "\pset linestyle old-ascii" is added to make the previous behavior
available if anyone really wants it.

In passing, this commit also cleans up a few regression test files that
had unintended spacing differences from the current actual output.

Roger Leigh, reviewed by Gabrielle Roth and other members of PDXPUG.

checked to determine whether the trigger should be fired.

For BEFORE triggers this is mostly a matter of spec compliance; but for AFTER
triggers it can provide a noticeable performance improvement, since queuing of
a deferred trigger event and re-fetching of the row(s) at end of statement can
be short-circuited if the trigger does not need to be fired.

Takahiro Itagaki, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei.

strength of database passwords, and create a sample implementation of
such a hook as a new contrib module "passwordcheck".

Laurenz Albe, reviewed by Takahiro Itagaki

adopted for EXPLAIN.  This will allow additional options to be implemented
in future without having to make them fully-reserved keywords.  The old syntax
remains available for existing options, however.

Itagaki Takahiro

default be "throw error on conflict", as per discussions.  The GUC variable
is plpgsql.variable_conflict, with values "error", "use_variable",
"use_column".  The behavior can also be specified per-function by inserting
one of
	#variable_conflict error
	#variable_conflict use_variable
	#variable_conflict use_column
at the start of the function body.

The 8.5 release notes will need to mention using "use_variable" to retain
backward-compatible behavior, although we should encourage people to migrate
to the much less mistake-prone "error" setting.

Update the plpgsql documentation to match this and other recent changes.

Update wording of GET DIAGNOSTICS/FOUND, per David Fetter.

Document that GET DIAGNOSTICS is affected by EXECUTE, while FOUND is
not.

it works just as well to have them be ordinary identifiers, and this gets rid
of a number of ugly special cases.  Plus we aren't interfering with non-rule
usage of these names.

catversion bump because the names change internally in stored rules.

behavior, and is so little used that no one has been interested in fixing it.
To ensure that possible uses are covered, remove the ALIAS declaration's
arbitrary restriction that only $n identifiers can be aliased.

(We could alternatively make RENAME act just like ALIAS, but per discussion
having two different ways to do the same thing is probably more confusing than
helpful.)

As proof of concept, modify plpgsql to use the hooks.  plpgsql is still
inserting $n symbols textually, but the "back end" of the parsing process now
goes through the ParamRef hook instead of using a fixed parameter-type array,
and then execution only fetches actually-referenced parameters, using a hook
added to ParamListInfo.

Although there's a lot left to be done in plpgsql, this already cures the
"if (TG_OP = 'INSERT' and NEW.foo ...)"  problem, as illustrated by the
changed regression test.