PostgreSQL 9.2.3 commit log

commit   : 51dac56ad5fd4cf5fe90f59c4b40f967fc3b13c5    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:07:40 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:07:40 -0500    

commit   : 1180844f176bdff4b63b4a33824f6cd786deed59    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:25:10 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:25:10 -0500    

This function was misdeclared to take cstring when it should take internal.  
This at least allows crashing the server, and in principle an attacker  
might be able to use the function to examine the contents of server memory.  
  
The correct fix is to adjust the system catalog contents (and fix the  
regression tests that should have caught this but failed to).  However,  
asking users to correct the catalog contents in existing installations  
is a pain, so as a band-aid fix for the back branches, install a check  
in enum_recv() to make it throw error if called with a cstring argument.  
We will later revert this in HEAD in favor of correcting the catalogs.  
  
Our thanks to Sumit Soni (via Secunia SVCRP) for reporting this issue.  
  
Security: CVE-2013-0255  

commit   : 23ab69922652a9f6f6bbd1fe254081fa6a6e089f    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 4 Feb 2013 15:50:45 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 4 Feb 2013 15:50:45 -0500    

commit   : b5f6c4dbe023e769aef4669bc25bfb6310754602    
  
author   : Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>    
date     : Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:41:37 +0000    
  
committer: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>    
date     : Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:41:37 +0000    

commit   : 0e1bee9ff494e870b7b12d3dc797b896c91938a8    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:01:19 -0500    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:01:19 -0500    

commit   : 9dd99933708994bb307efcf214b11f6061bbe18f    
  
author   : Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>    
date     : Sat, 2 Feb 2013 18:50:42 +0000    
  
committer: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>    
date     : Sat, 2 Feb 2013 18:50:42 +0000    

Following bug analysis of #7819 by Tom Lane  

commit   : 231dbb3c9be755eebdf677b469f2dd4494e7937f    
  
author   : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Fri, 1 Feb 2013 12:00:40 -0300    
  
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Fri, 1 Feb 2013 12:00:40 -0300    

The original code used freeze_min_age instead of freeze_table_age.  The  
main consequence of this mistake is that lowering freeze_min_age would  
cause full-table scans to occur much more frequently, which causes  
serious issues because the number of writes required is much larger.  
That feature (freeze_min_age) is supposed to affect only how soon tuples  
are frozen; some pages should still be skipped due to the visibility  
map.  
  
Backpatch to 8.4, where the freeze_table_age feature was introduced.  
  
Report and patch from Andres Freund  

commit   : 1a7cd9f78a60110116afa9dd3951c7ec84cf0ac9    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:32:34 -0500    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:32:34 -0500    

Mention it might be necessary to modify postgresql.conf in the new  
cluster to match the old cluster.  
  
Backpatch to 9.2.  
  
Suggested by user.  

commit   : b0b8dff353f8aae4bb73c6e5f465a049eb0934ea    
  
author   : Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>    
date     : Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:03:24 +0100    
  
committer: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>    
date     : Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:03:24 +0100    

This ensure the version number increases over time. The first three digits  
in the version number is still set to the actual PostgreSQL version  
number, but the last one is intended to be an ever increasing build number,  
which previosly failed when it changed between 1, 2 and 3 digits long values.  
  
Noted by Deepak  

commit   : e09825aa540ea4037732d981472d12960ad999f6    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:02:33 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:02:33 -0500    

exec_simple_check_plan and exec_eval_simple_expr attempted to call  
GetCachedPlan directly.  This meant that if an error was thrown during  
planning, the resulting context traceback would not include the line  
normally contributed by _SPI_error_callback.  This is already inconsistent,  
but just to be really odd, a re-execution of the very same expression  
*would* show the additional context line, because we'd already have cached  
the plan and marked the expression as non-simple.  
  
The problem is easy to demonstrate in 9.2 and HEAD because planning of a  
cached plan doesn't occur at all until GetCachedPlan is done.  In earlier  
versions, it could only be an issue if initial planning had succeeded, then  
a replan was forced (already somewhat improbable for a simple expression),  
and the replan attempt failed.  Since the issue is mainly cosmetic in older  
branches anyway, it doesn't seem worth the risk of trying to fix it there.  
It is worth fixing in 9.2 since the instability of the context printout can  
affect the results of GET STACKED DIAGNOSTICS, as per a recent discussion  
on pgsql-novice.  
  
To fix, introduce a SPI function that wraps GetCachedPlan while installing  
the correct callback function.  Use this instead of calling GetCachedPlan  
directly from plpgsql.  
  
Also introduce a wrapper function for extracting a SPI plan's  
CachedPlanSource list.  This lets us stop including spi_priv.h in  
pl_exec.c, which was never a very good idea from a modularity standpoint.  
  
In passing, fix a similar inconsistency that could occur in SPI_cursor_open,  
which was also calling GetCachedPlan without setting up a context callback.  

commit   : e7105c5f983ba1d21a19a28ad51b927c55ff40e3    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:16:23 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:16:23 -0500    

Such cases should work, but the grammar failed to accept them because of  
our ancient precedence hacks to convince bison that extra parentheses  
around a sub-SELECT in an expression are unambiguous.  (Formally, they  
*are* ambiguous, but we don't especially care whether they're treated as  
part of the sub-SELECT or part of the expression.  Bison cares, though.)  
Fix by adding a redundant-looking production for this case.  
  
This is a fine example of why fixing shift/reduce conflicts via  
precedence declarations is more dangerous than it looks: you can easily  
cause the parser to reject cases that should work.  
  
This has been wrong since commit 3db4056e22b0c6b2adc92543baf8408d2894fe91  
or maybe before, and apparently some people have been working around it  
by inserting no-op casts.  That method introduces a dump/reload hazard,  
as illustrated in bug #7838 from Jan Mate.  Hence, back-patch to all  
active branches.  

commit   : 2d4e3387930c199f8c3b863442c5bee75eacb797    
  
author   : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:46:47 -0300    
  
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:46:47 -0300    

My "fix" for bugs #7578 and #6116 on DROP OWNED at fe3b5eb08a1 not only  
misstated that it applied to REASSIGN OWNED (which it did not affect),  
but it also failed to fix the problems fully, because I didn't test the  
case of owned shared objects.  Thus I created a new bug, reported by  
Thomas Kellerer as #7748, which would cause DROP OWNED to fail with a  
not-for-user-consumption error message.  The code would attempt to drop  
the database, which not only fails to work because the underlying code  
does not support that, but is a pretty dangerous and undesirable thing  
to be doing as well.  
  
This patch fixes that bug by having DROP OWNED only attempt to process  
shared objects when grants on them are found, ignoring ownership.  
  
Backpatch to 8.3, which is as far as the previous bug was backpatched.  

commit   : 5ca31a758a030a867a2a9f43298be291fd717d32    
  
author   : Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:48:12 +0100    
  
committer: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:48:12 +0100    

Bug reported and fixed by Chen Huajun <chenhj@cn.fujitsu.com>.  

commit   : 308711afc759fa0f3cc0b40844d4647cead0997f    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:59:00 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:59:00 -0500    

plpython tried to use a single cache entry for a trigger function, but it  
needs a separate cache entry for each table the trigger is applied to,  
because there is table-dependent data in there.  This was done correctly  
before 9.1, but commit 46211da1b84bc3537e799ee1126098e71c2428e8 broke it  
by simplifying the lookup key from "function OID and triggered table OID"  
to "function OID and is-trigger boolean".  Go back to using both OIDs  
as the lookup key.  Per bug report from Sandro Santilli.  
  
Andres Freund  

commit   : 6d5c62ad992d8bb2ef2a29276dd02c52799b10a1    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:46:38 -0500    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:46:38 -0500    

Backpatch to 9.2  
  
per Tom Lane  

commit   : dc33b0961eb9628290c29f465ef416c8991a3f0c    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:18:44 -0500    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:18:44 -0500    

Backpatch to 9.2.  
  
Patch from Alan B  

commit   : a33c0045a86d128d175e94f472e575b7daaecb91    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:13:40 -0500    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:13:40 -0500    

Backpatch to 9.2  
  
Shigeru HANADA  

commit   : 65fc0ab5599c61cea92e1e2a5002b62e6b52f283    
  
author   : Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>    
date     : Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:44:14 +0100    
  
committer: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>    
date     : Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:44:14 +0100    

Noted by Joe Van Dyk  

commit   : ab2d907a25e8c59326dc4d4194578e95eeceae89    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:21:50 -0500    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:21:50 -0500    

Backpatch to 9.2.  
  
Patch from Kohei KaiGai  

commit   : ecfd9941ec2b6b2d7a6444d149d7d232c7e26a86    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:34:04 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:34:04 -0500    

Since 9.0, the count parameter has only limited the number of tuples  
actually returned by the executor.  It doesn't affect the behavior of  
INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE unless RETURNING is specified, because without  
RETURNING, the ModifyTable plan node doesn't return control to execMain.c  
for each tuple.  And we only check the limit at the top level.  
  
While this behavioral change was unintentional at the time, discussion of  
bug #6572 led us to the conclusion that we prefer the new behavior anyway,  
and so we should just adjust the docs to match rather than change the code.  
Accordingly, do that.  Back-patch as far as 9.0 so that the docs match the  
code in each branch.  

commit   : 6c77ce328f8f26ef7acb19287890f7522b8d1869    
  
author   : Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>    
date     : Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:01:31 -0500    
  
committer: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>    
date     : Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:01:31 -0500    

This ensures that mapping of non-ascii prompts  
to the correct code page occurs.  
  
Bug report and original patch from Alexander Law,  
reviewed and reworked by Noah Misch.  
  
Backpatch to all live branches.  

commit   : b544ea1a4135bac7ececa3bc4eedfd457997d96e    
  
author   : Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>    
date     : Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:24:17 +0000    
  
committer: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>    
date     : Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:24:17 +0000    

Backpatchable fix to 9.0  
  
Detailed bug report and fix by Noah Misch,  
backpatchable version by me.  

commit   : 3cef2179e0ded304286215c653d6458354d23a55    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:41:30 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:41:30 +0200    

Backpatch to 9.2, like the previous fix.  

commit   : 14ba9b11eab37f7cf44d41030eb2c0208795783d    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:08:01 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:08:01 -0500    

When we eliminated "unnecessary" wakeups of the syslogger process, we  
broke size-based logfile rotation on Windows, because on that platform  
data transfer is done in a separate thread.  While non-Windows platforms  
would recheck the output file size after every log message, Windows only  
did so when the control thread woke up for some other reason, which might  
be quite infrequent.  Per bug #7814 from Tsunezumi.  Back-patch to 9.2  
where the problem was introduced.  
  
Jeff Janes  

commit   : a79ae0bc0d454b9f2c95a67c8eeff38c440abf99    
  
author   : Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:39:28 -0600    
  
committer: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:39:28 -0600    

In situations where there are over 8MB of empty pages at the end of  
a table, the truncation work for trailing empty pages takes longer  
than deadlock_timeout, and there is frequent access to the table by  
processes other than autovacuum, there was a problem with the  
autovacuum worker process being canceled by the deadlock checking  
code. The truncation work done by autovacuum up that point was  
lost, and the attempt tried again by a later autovacuum worker. The  
attempts could continue indefinitely without making progress,  
consuming resources and blocking other processes for up to  
deadlock_timeout each time.  
  
This patch has the autovacuum worker checking whether it is  
blocking any other thread at 20ms intervals. If such a condition  
develops, the autovacuum worker will persist the work it has done  
so far, release its lock on the table, and sleep in 50ms intervals  
for up to 5 seconds, hoping to be able to re-acquire the lock and  
try again. If it is unable to get the lock in that time, it moves  
on and a worker will try to continue later from the point this one  
left off.  
  
While this patch doesn't change the rules about when and what to  
truncate, it does cause the truncation to occur sooner, with less  
blocking, and with the consumption of fewer resources when there is  
contention for the table's lock.  
  
The only user-visible change other than improved performance is  
that the table size during truncation may change incrementally  
instead of just once.  
  
Backpatched to 9.0 from initial master commit at  
b19e4250b45e91c9cbdd18d35ea6391ab5961c8d -- before that the  
differences are too large to be clearly safe.  
  
Jan Wieck  

commit   : 9a3ddecdd9261856b1091da0f7a86fa41430eaa2    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:43:51 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:43:51 -0500    

This bug goes back to the original Postgres95 sources.  Its significance  
to modern PG versions is marginal, since we have not used PQprintTuples()  
internally in a very long time, and it doesn't seem to have ever been  
documented either.  Still, it *is* exposed to client apps, so somebody  
out there might possibly be using it.  
  
Xi Wang  

commit   : 666569f1fde8fbf42ca00ff08c5309c348958889    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:09:35 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:09:35 -0500    

The code failed to detect an out-of-memory failure.  
  
Xi Wang  

commit   : ff6deb2ec9de46c14964946674916694a01d64a7    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:36:30 -0500    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:36:30 -0500    

Leading white space before the "http:" is apparently treated as a  
relative link at least by some browsers.  

commit   : 437ecd15880c833427ced9e3ebe3893d068f8478    
  
author   : Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>    
date     : Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:10:12 +0100    
  
committer: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>    
date     : Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:10:12 +0100    

Josh Kupershmidt  

commit   : 30a4853cfdc6e1acf93509b543d410bac98535ac    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:20:32 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:20:32 -0500    

Un-double the backslashes in the LIKE patterns, since  
standard_conforming_strings is now the default.  Just to be sure, include  
a command to set standard_conforming_strings to ON in the example.  
  
Back-patch to 9.1, where standard_conforming_strings became the default.  
  
Josh Kupershmidt, reviewed by Jeff Janes  

commit   : e994d83d5b378f6603fccf452c0888a149837c33    
  
author   : Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>    
date     : Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:54:29 -0500    
  
committer: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>    
date     : Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:54:29 -0500    

Complaint and patch from Zoltán Böszörményi.  
  
When cross-compiling, the native make doesn't know  
about the Windows .exe suffix, so it only builds with  
it when explicitly told to do so.  
  
The native make will not see the link between the target  
name and the built executable, and might this do unnecesary  
work, but that's a bigger problem than this one, if in fact  
we consider it a problem at all.  
  
Back-patch to all live branches.  

commit   : d98547eb43860549097f29c953657191f9b9f2cf    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:06:27 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:06:27 -0500    

Use of SnapshotNow is known to expose us to race conditions if the tuple(s)  
being sought could be updated by concurrently-committing transactions.  
CREATE DATABASE and DROP DATABASE are particularly exposed because they do  
heavyweight filesystem operations during their scans of pg_tablespace,  
so that the scans run for a very long time compared to most.  Furthermore,  
the potential consequences of a missed or twice-visited row are nastier  
than average:  
  
* createdb() could fail with a bogus "file already exists" error, or  
  silently fail to copy one or more tablespace's worth of files into the  
  new database.  
  
* remove_dbtablespaces() could miss one or more tablespaces, thus failing  
  to free filesystem space for the dropped database.  
  
* check_db_file_conflict() could likewise miss a tablespace, leading to an  
  OID conflict that could result in data loss either immediately or in  
  future operations.  (This seems of very low probability, though, since a  
  duplicate database OID would be unlikely to start with.)  
  
Hence, it seems worth fixing these three places to use MVCC snapshots, even  
though this will someday be superseded by a generic solution to SnapshotNow  
race conditions.  
  
Back-patch to all active branches.  
  
Stephen Frost and Tom Lane  

commit   : 8d1fbf947dca155f6a1ad24c80c6152e65208969    
  
author   : Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:49:52 -0500    
  
committer: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:49:52 -0500    

This got broken in the original fast-path locking patch, because  
I failed to account for the fact that Hot Standby startup process  
might take a strong relation lock on a relation in a database to  
which it is not bound, and confused MyDatabaseId with the database  
ID of the relation being locked.  
  
Report and diagnosis by Andres Freund.  Final form of patch by me.  

commit   : 71c53d528568a2ee1e250d452dc5fde3f9e619b6    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:09:41 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:09:41 +0200    

"none" could mislead to think that you're connected a database with that  
name. Also, it needs to be translated, which might be hard without some  
context. So in back-branches, use empty string, so that the message is  
(currently ""), which is at least unambiguous and doens't require  
translation. In master, it's no problem to add translatable strings, so use  
a different fix there.  

commit   : ee0ef989f38c1ac482673766636ba89940977913    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:54:03 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:54:03 +0200    

Backpatch all the way to 8.3. Fixes bug #7811, per report and diagnosis by  
Meng Qingzhong.  

commit   : 0471b013aab87ebfbb767e9456c7b619d5c2b9d3    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:19:48 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:19:48 -0500    

Dates outside the supported range could be entered, but would not print  
reasonably, and operations such as conversion to timestamp wouldn't behave  
sanely either.  Since this has the potential to result in undumpable table  
data, it seems worth back-patching.  
  
Hitoshi Harada  

commit   : 7938d84a3234594a9183fcdc84c855c4b883c3bb    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:45:40 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:45:40 -0500    

This seems to have been invented in 2011 to represent GMT+3, non daylight  
savings rules, as now used in Europe/Kaliningrad and Europe/Minsk.  
There are no conflicts so might as well add it to the Default list.  
Per bug #7804 from Ruslan Izmaylov.  

commit   : b72d5c55cc87067c3968a84cf7cb858072bdbf02    
  
author   : Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>    
date     : Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:24:38 -0500    
  
committer: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>    
date     : Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:24:38 -0500    

This is now used by ecpg tests, and not clobbered by pg_upgrade  
tests. This change won't affect anything that doesn't set this  
environment variable, but will enable the buildfarm to control  
exactly what port regression test installs will be running on,  
and thus to detect possible rogue postmasters more easily.  
  
Backpatch to release 9.2 where EXTRA_REGRESS_OPTS was first used.  

commit   : 3e9960e9d935e7e7c12e78441f99befc877563ef    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:08:19 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:08:19 -0500    

This partially reverts commit 21a39de5809cd3050a37d2554323cc1d0cbeed9d,  
restoring the pre-9.2 cost estimates for index usage.  That change  
introduced much too large a bias against larger indexes, as per reports  
from Jeff Janes and others.  The whole thing needs a rewrite, which I've  
done in HEAD, but the safest thing to do in 9.2 is just to undo this  
multiplier change.  

commit   : 0b3c54aac774bb32ffc6816a164a8b7804663c87    
  
author   : Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>    
date     : Wed, 9 Jan 2013 17:29:59 +0100    
  
committer: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>    
date     : Wed, 9 Jan 2013 17:29:59 +0100    

JiangGuiqing  

commit   : fe35c0b6e54d0787ccab17974010a48a8a3ba6d3    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:26:03 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:26:03 -0500    

If VirtualXactLock() has to wait for a transaction that holds its VXID lock  
as a fast-path lock, it must first convert the fast-path lock to a regular  
lock.  It failed to take the required "partition" lock on the main  
shared-memory lock table while doing so.  This is the direct cause of the  
assert failure in GetLockStatusData() recently observed in the buildfarm,  
but more worryingly it could result in arbitrary corruption of the shared  
lock table if some other process were concurrently engaged in modifying the  
same partition of the lock table.  Fortunately, VirtualXactLock() is only  
used by CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY and DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY, so the  
opportunities for failure are fewer than they might have been.  
  
In passing, improve some comments and be a bit more consistent about  
order of operations.  

commit   : a17da19ed9eeffd08c138ebd816552acf75b8261    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 4 Jan 2013 17:42:25 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 4 Jan 2013 17:42:25 -0500    

SPI_execute() and related functions create a CachedPlan, execute it once,  
and immediately discard it, so that the functionality offered by  
plancache.c is of no value in this code path.  And performance measurements  
show that the extra data copying and invalidation checking done by  
plancache.c slows down simple queries by 10% or more compared to 9.1.  
However, enough of the SPI code is shared with functions that do need plan  
caching that it seems impractical to bypass plancache.c altogether.  
Instead, let's invent a variant version of cached plans that preserves  
99% of the API but doesn't offer any of the actual functionality, nor the  
overhead.  This puts SPI_execute() performance back on par, or maybe even  
slightly better, than it was before.  This change should resolve recent  
complaints of performance degradation from Dong Ye, Pavel Stehule, and  
others.  
  
By avoiding data copying, this change also reduces the amount of memory  
needed to execute many-statement SPI_execute() strings, as for instance in  
a recent complaint from Tomas Vondra.  
  
An additional benefit of this change is that multi-statement SPI_execute()  
query strings are now processed fully serially, that is we complete  
execution of earlier statements before running parse analysis and planning  
on following ones.  This eliminates a long-standing POLA violation, in that  
DDL that affects the behavior of a later statement will now behave as  
expected.  
  
Back-patch to 9.2, since this was a performance regression compared to 9.1.  
(In 9.2, place the added struct fields so as to avoid changing the offsets  
of existing fields.)  
  
Heikki Linnakangas and Tom Lane  

commit   : 48e0b8a23e3c6e095333a6d489d3f7771d28d383    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:34:57 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:34:57 -0500    

On non-Windows machines, we use the Unix socket for connections to test  
postmasters, so there is no need to create a TCP socket.  Furthermore,  
doing so causes failures due to port conflicts if two builds are carried  
out concurrently on one machine.  (If the builds are done in different  
chroots, which is standard practice at least in Red Hat distros, there  
is no risk of conflict on the Unix socket.)  Suppressing the TCP socket  
by setting listen_addresses to empty has long been standard practice  
for pg_regress, and pg_upgrade knows about this too ... but pg_upgrade's  
test.sh didn't get the memo.  
  
Back-patch to 9.2, and also sync the 9.2 version of the script with HEAD  
as much as practical.  

commit   : b4c99c9af379157a6224b0a4c01da22192633adf    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 3 Jan 2013 19:50:46 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 3 Jan 2013 19:50:46 +0200    

If you take a base backup from a standby server with "pg_basebackup -X  
fetch", and the timeline switches while the backup is being taken, the  
backup used to fail with an error "requested WAL segment %s has already  
been removed". This is because the server-side code that sends over the  
required WAL files would not construct the WAL filename with the correct  
timeline after a switch.  
  
Fix that by using readdir() to scan pg_xlog for all the WAL segments in the  
range, regardless of timeline.  
  
Also, include all timeline history files in the backup, if taken with  
"-X fetch". That fixes another related bug: If a timeline switch happened  
just before the backup was initiated in a standby, the WAL segment  
containing the initial checkpoint record contains WAL from the older  
timeline too. Recovery will not accept that without a timeline history file  
that lists the older timeline.  
  
Backpatch to 9.2. Versions prior to that were not affected as you could not  
take a base backup from a standby before 9.2.  

commit   : faf1b1bd71842e49e4f8294e1180fd6b3f120928    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Tue, 1 Jan 2013 17:15:00 -0500    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Tue, 1 Jan 2013 17:15:00 -0500    

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

commit   : 7e1cf76524323755caf5894961ca973b3969c315    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:26:47 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:26:47 +0200    

The cascading standby patch in 9.2 changed the way WAL files are treated  
when restored from the archive. Before, they were restored under a temporary  
filename, and not kept in pg_xlog, but after the patch, they were copied  
under pg_xlog. This is necessary for a cascading standby to find them, but  
it also means that if the archive goes offline and a standby is restarted,  
it can recover back to where it was using the files in pg_xlog. It also  
means that if you take an offline backup from a standby server, it includes  
all the required WAL files in pg_xlog.  
  
However, the same change was not made to timeline history files, so if the  
WAL segment containing the checkpoint record contains a timeline switch, you  
will still get an error if you try to restart recovery without the archive,  
or recover from an offline backup taken from the standby.  
  
With this patch, timeline history files restored from archive are copied  
into pg_xlog like WAL files are, so that pg_xlog contains all the files  
required to recover. This is a corner-case pre-existing issue in 9.2, but  
even more important in master where it's possible for a standby to follow a  
timeline switch through streaming replication. To make that possible, the  
timeline history files must be present in pg_xlog.  

commit   : b573fc840b2c782e7fb0c7a4ca363e44c4e0e58e    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:58:07 -0500    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:58:07 -0500    

Parts of the description had claimed incorrect pg_hba.conf option names  
for LDAP authentication.  
  
Albe Laurenz  

commit   : 7ec225d3d615694f308c43d8449861c8e8b1b6aa    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:52:27 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:52:27 -0500    

Code review for commit 2f582f76b1945929ff07116cd4639747ce9bb8a1: don't use  
a static variable for what ought to be a deparse_context field, fix  
non-multibyte-safe test for spaces, avoid useless and potentially O(N^2)  
(though admittedly with a very small constant) calculations of wrap  
positions when we aren't going to wrap.  

commit   : de4cf42af954a03957d3fd7afc1314b45af786e8    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:07:31 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:07:31 -0500    

transformExpr() is required to cope with already-transformed expression  
trees, for various ugly-but-not-quite-worth-cleaning-up reasons.  However,  
some of its newer subroutines hadn't gotten the memo.  This accounts for  
bug #7763 from Norbert Buchmuller: transformRowExpr() was overwriting the  
previously determined type of a RowExpr during CREATE TABLE LIKE INCLUDING  
INDEXES.  Additional investigation showed that transformXmlExpr had the  
same kind of problem, but all the other cases seem to be safe.  
  
Andres Freund and Tom Lane  

commit   : 97e1db771ccd64e84081b4576d285d0ddcfbae03    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:01:29 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:01:29 -0500    

"GetForeignTableColumnOptions" should be "GetForeignColumnOptions".  
Noted by Metin Döşlü.  

commit   : 52d469b4ace07f2d1af9426c9c0bbfc1c86a4c91    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:29:49 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:29:49 +0200    

If a relation file was removed when the server-side counterpart of  
pg_basebackup was just about to open it to send it to the client, you'd  
get a "could not open file" error. Fix that.  
  
Backpatch to 9.1, this goes back to when pg_basebackup was introduced.  

commit   : 3463dacc5627b849bbddd3f395dca44f39430e19    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:36:13 -0500    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:36:13 -0500    

commit   : bfe738d7f3678174976cfe0e93815abb98eefdd9    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:31:04 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:31:04 -0500    

If pg_extension_config_dump() is executed again for a table already listed  
in the extension's extconfig, the code was blindly making a new array entry.  
This does not seem useful.  Fix it to replace the existing array entry  
instead, so that it's possible for extension update scripts to alter the  
filter conditions for configuration tables.  
  
In addition, teach ALTER EXTENSION DROP TABLE to check for an extconfig  
entry for the target table, and remove it if present.  This is not a 100%  
solution because it's allowed for an extension update script to just  
summarily DROP a member table, and that code path doesn't go through  
ExecAlterExtensionContentsStmt.  We could probably make that case clean  
things up if we had to, but it would involve sticking a very ugly wart  
somewhere in the guts of dependency.c.  Since on the whole it seems quite  
unlikely that extension updates would want to remove pre-existing  
configuration tables, making the case possible with an explicit command  
seems sufficient.  
  
Per bug #7756 from Regina Obe.  Back-patch to 9.1 where extensions were  
introduced.  

commit   : 3881aedbcfb5e1e36e2860d081e045fb5283f8cc    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:30:59 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:30:59 +0200    

After the recovery target timeline is changed, we would still recycle and  
preallocate WAL segments on the old target timeline. Those WAL segments  
created for the old timeline are a waste of space, although otherwise  
harmless.  
  
The problem is that when installing a recycled WAL segment as a future one,  
ThisTimeLineID is used to construct the filename. ThisTimeLineID is  
initialized in the checkpointer process to the recovery target timeline at  
startup, but it was not updated when the startup process chooses a new  
target timeline (recovery_target_timeline='latest'). To fix, always update  
ThisTimeLineID before recycling WAL segments at a restartpoint.  
  
This still leaves a small window where we might install WAL segments under  
wrong timeline ID, if the target timeline is changed just as we're about to  
start recycling. Also, when we're not on the target timeline yet, but still  
replaying some older timeline, we'll install WAL segments to the newer  
timeline anyway and they will still go wasted. We'll just live with the  
waste in that situation.  
  
Commit to 9.2 and 9.1. Older versions didn't change recovery target timeline  
after startup, and for master, I'll commit a slightly different variant of  
this.  

commit   : 8e1e8278c35be9b70e92c8b43a8f65b372dc269a    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:13:23 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:13:23 +0200    

If you restored from a backup taken from a standby, and the last record in  
the backup is the checkpoint record, ie. there is no redo required except  
for the checkpoint record, we would fail to notice that we've reached the  
end-of-backup point, and the database is consistent. The result was an  
error "WAL ends before end of online backup". To fix, move the  
have-we-reached-end-of-backup check into CheckRecoveryConsistency(), which  
is already responsible for similar checks with minRecoveryPoint, and is  
called in the right places.  
  
Backpatch to 9.2, this check and bug did not exist before that.  

commit   : 31e0349a1694ceff82b389a9ff4ab6b888f3ab02    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:22:19 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:22:19 -0500    

Some versions of libedit expose bogus definitions of setproctitle(),  
optreset, and perhaps other symbols that we don't want configure to pick up  
on.  There was a previous report of similar problems with strlcpy(), which  
we addressed in commit 59cf88da91bc88978b05275ebd94ac2d980c4047, but the  
problem has evidently grown in scope since then.  In hopes of not having to  
deal with it again in future, rearrange configure's tests for supplied  
functions so that we ignore libedit/libreadline except when probing  
specifically for functions we expect them to provide.  
  
Per report from Christoph Berg, though this is slightly more aggressive  
than his proposed patch.  

commit   : fe2ef429a19b25903438b882ce16617a6e700d0f    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:15:39 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:15:39 -0500    

During crash recovery, we remove disk files belonging to temporary tables,  
but the system catalog entries for such tables are intentionally not  
cleaned up right away.  Instead, the first backend that uses a temp schema  
is expected to clean out any leftover objects therein.  This approach  
requires that we be careful to ignore leftover temp tables (since any  
actual access attempt would fail), *even if their BackendId matches our  
session*, if we have not yet established use of the session's corresponding  
temp schema.  That worked fine in the past, but was broken by commit  
debcec7dc31a992703911a9953e299c8d730c778 which incorrectly removed the  
rd_islocaltemp relcache flag.  Put it back, and undo various changes  
that substituted tests like "rel->rd_backend == MyBackendId" for use  
of a state-aware flag.  Per trouble report from Heikki Linnakangas.  
  
Back-patch to 9.1 where the erroneous change was made.  In the back  
branches, be careful to add rd_islocaltemp in a spot in the struct that  
was alignment padding before, so as not to break existing add-on code.  

commit   : d93c01f16854e655dd69b614747d3432a39f0385    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:02:02 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:02:02 -0500    

We failed to ever fill the sixth line (LISTEN_ADDR), which caused the  
attempt to fill the seventh line (SHMEM_KEY) to fail, so that the shared  
memory key never got added to the file in standalone mode.  This has been  
broken since we added more content to our lock files in 9.1.  
  
To fix, tweak the logic in CreateLockFile to add an empty LISTEN_ADDR  
line in standalone mode.  This is a tad grotty, but since that function  
already knows almost everything there is to know about the contents of  
lock files, it doesn't seem that it's any better to hack it elsewhere.  
  
It's not clear how significant this bug really is, since a standalone  
backend should never have any children and thus it seems not critical  
to be able to check the nattch count of the shmem segment externally.  
But I'm going to back-patch the fix anyway.  
  
This problem had escaped notice because of an ancient (and in hindsight  
pretty dubious) decision to suppress LOG-level messages by default in  
standalone mode; so that the elog(LOG) complaint in AddToDataDirLockFile  
that should have warned of the problem didn't do anything.  Fixing that  
is material for a separate patch though.  

commit   : 3759e51bd9e12187d4ff0fe9995ab4abc23bdbd0    
  
author   : Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>    
date     : Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:56:51 +0100    
  
committer: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>    
date     : Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:56:51 +0100    

Craig Ringer  

commit   : 77a1ba20aa7b7caae4396e2afa5d86132fd36f6b    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:34:03 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:34:03 +0200    

If a tuple is larger than page size minus space reserved for fillfactor,  
heap_multi_insert would never find a page that it fits in and repeatedly ask  
for a new page from RelationGetBufferForTuple. If a tuple is too large to  
fit on any page, taking fillfactor into account, RelationGetBufferForTuple  
will always expand the relation. In a normal insert, heap_insert will accept  
that and put the tuple on the new page. heap_multi_insert, however, does a  
fillfactor check of its own, and doesn't accept the newly-extended page  
RelationGetBufferForTuple returns, even though there is no other choice to  
make the tuple fit.  
  
Fix that by making the logic in heap_multi_insert more like the heap_insert  
logic. The first tuple is always put on the page RelationGetBufferForTuple  
gives us, and the fillfactor check is only applied to the subsequent tuples.  
  
Report from David Gould, although I didn't use his patch.  

commit   : 8bb937cc53a4568388c5ae85386eed58d88e5853    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:09:12 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:09:12 -0500    

The dynahash code requires the number of buckets in a hash table to fit  
in an int; but since we calculate the desired hash table size dynamically,  
there are various scenarios where we might calculate too large a value.  
The resulting overflow can lead to infinite loops, division-by-zero  
crashes, etc.  I (tgl) had previously installed some defenses against that  
in commit 299d1716525c659f0e02840e31fbe4dea3, but that covered only one  
call path.  Moreover it worked by limiting the request size to work_mem,  
but in a 64-bit machine it's possible to set work_mem high enough that the  
problem appears anyway.  So let's fix the problem at the root by installing  
limits in the dynahash.c functions themselves.  
  
Trouble report and patch by Jeff Davis.  

commit   : 744358005c49238b2abc62f69fe84e5440ffde0f    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:09:22 -0500    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:09:22 -0500    

All versions of pg_upgrade upgraded invalid indexes caused by CREATE  
INDEX CONCURRENTLY failures and marked them as valid.  The patch adds a  
check to all pg_upgrade versions and throws an error during upgrade or  
--check.  
  
Backpatch to 9.2, 9.1, 9.0.  Patch slightly adjusted.  

commit   : fb565f8c9616ec8ab1b5176d16f310725e581e6e    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:57:24 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:57:24 +0200    

EndRecPtr is the last record that we've read, but not necessarily yet  
replayed. CheckRecoveryConsistency should compare minRecoveryPoint with the  
last replayed record instead. This caused recovery to think it's reached  
consistency too early.  
  
Now that we do the check in CheckRecoveryConsistency correctly, we have to  
move the call of that function to after redoing a record. The current place,  
after reading a record but before replaying it, is wrong. In particular, if  
there are no more records after the one ending at minRecoveryPoint, we don't  
enter hot standby until one extra record is generated and read by the  
standby, and CheckRecoveryConsistency is called. These two bugs conspired  
to make the code appear to work correctly, except for the small window  
between reading the last record that reaches minRecoveryPoint, and  
replaying it.  
  
In the passing, rename recoveryLastRecPtr, which is the last record  
replayed, to lastReplayedEndRecPtr. This makes it slightly less confusing  
with replayEndRecPtr, which is the last record read that we're about to  
replay.  
  
Original report from Kyotaro HORIGUCHI, further diagnosis by Fujii Masao.  
Backpatch to 9.0, where Hot Standby subtly changed the test from  
"minRecoveryPoint < EndRecPtr" to "minRecoveryPoint <= EndRecPtr". The  
former works because where the test is performed, we have always read one  
more record than we've replayed.  

commit   : 4d29e8cc015918c54ad38ae88f78e21e61e653a8    
  
author   : Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>    
date     : Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:52:23 -0500    
  
committer: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>    
date     : Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:52:23 -0500    

Normally each module is tested in a database named contrib_regression,  
which is dropped and recreated at the beginhning of each pg_regress run.  
This new mode, enabled by adding USE_MODULE_DB=1 to the make command  
line, runs most modules in a database with the module name embedded in  
it.  
  
This will make testing pg_upgrade on clusters with the contrib modules  
a lot easier.  
  
Second attempt at this, this time accomodating make versions older  
than 3.82.  
  
Still to be done: adapt to the MSVC build system.  
  
Backpatch to 9.0, which is the earliest version it is reasonably  
possible to test upgrading from.  

commit   : 35fb1434b185c5e9ee1e232f3349713201e7cbfa    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:03:17 -0500    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:03:17 -0500    

Fix previous commit that added synchronous_commit=off, but broke -O/-o  
due to missing space in argument passing.  
  
Backpatch to 9.2.  

commit   : fbe285ae83628cf73a8e1ad04873a4a4b7ce56d3    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:54:42 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:54:42 +0200    

If a file is truncated, we must update minRecoveryPoint. Once a file is  
truncated, there's no going back; it would not be safe to stop recovery  
at a point earlier than that anymore.  
  
Per report from Kyotaro HORIGUCHI. Backpatch to 8.4. Before that,  
minRecoveryPoint was not updated during recovery at all.  

commit   : 6cb8c6043ee47ced46da131bc0705e9c4bdd8667    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:08:30 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:08:30 -0500    

Commit 729205571e81b4767efc42ad7beb53663e08d1ff added privileges on data  
types, but there were a number of oversights.  The implementation of  
default privileges for types missed a few places, and pg_dump was  
utterly innocent of the whole concept.  Per bug #7741 from Nathan Alden,  
and subsequent wider investigation.  

commit   : cedebc1fd396785ca98cec0570f1b34211b83813    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Sat, 8 Dec 2012 07:36:25 -0500    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Sat, 8 Dec 2012 07:36:25 -0500    

The old one is responding with 404.  

commit   : 4863ed8f372f2d38f1870fb668b8a99097223cf7    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 5 Dec 2012 23:42:55 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 5 Dec 2012 23:42:55 -0500    

When deleteOneObject closes and reopens the pg_depend relation,  
we must see to it that the relcache pointer held by the calling function  
(typically performMultipleDeletions) is updated.  Usually the relcache  
entry is retained so that the pointer value doesn't change, which is why  
the problem had escaped notice ... but after a cache flush event there's  
no guarantee that the same memory will be reassigned.  To fix, change  
the recursive functions' APIs so that we pass around a "Relation *"  
not just "Relation".  
  
Per investigation of occasional buildfarm failures.  This is trivial  
to reproduce with -DCLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS, which points up the sad  
lack of any buildfarm member running that way on a regular basis.  

commit   : 161021dd4cc467277575533af7ce5274c0ea43d7    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 5 Dec 2012 18:27:57 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 5 Dec 2012 18:27:57 -0500    

If we're not in hot standby mode, then there's no way for users to connect  
to reset the recoveryPause flag, so we shouldn't pause.  The code was aware  
of this but the test to see if pausing was safe was seriously inadequate:  
it wasn't paying attention to reachedConsistency, and besides what it was  
testing was that we could legally enter hot standby, not that we have  
done so.  Get rid of that in favor of checking LocalHotStandbyActive,  
which because of the coding in CheckRecoveryConsistency is tantamount to  
checking that we have told the postmaster to enter hot standby.  
  
Also, move the recoveryPausesHere() call that reacts to asynchronous  
recoveryPause requests so that it's not in the middle of application of a  
WAL record.  I put it next to the recoveryStopsHere() call --- in future  
those are going to need to interact significantly, so this seems like a  
good waystation.  
  
Also, don't bother trying to read another WAL record if we've already  
decided not to continue recovery.  This was no big deal when the code was  
written originally, but now that reading a record might entail actions like  
fetching an archive file, it seems a bit silly to do it like that.  
  
Per report from Jeff Janes and subsequent discussion.  The pause feature  
needs quite a lot more work, but this gets rid of some indisputable bugs,  
and seems safe enough to back-patch.  

commit   : d56b6293009096ce64b30dd5ceddc35e768ac2f9    
  
author   : Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>    
date     : Wed, 5 Dec 2012 13:28:39 +0000    
  
committer: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>    
date     : Wed, 5 Dec 2012 13:28:39 +0000    

Simon Riggs and Andres Freund, bug report by Jeff Janes  

commit   : 0811f4fcf5c9a65aa4402ce9505b48df3677afcb    
  
author   : Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:35:18 +0100    
  
committer: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:35:18 +0100    

Patch done by Jiang Guiqing <jianggq@cn.fujitsu.com>.