Replace the former ad-hoc implementation used in the regression tests.
Joachim Wieland

sake of brevity and clarity.

Make pg_reload_conf(), pg_rotate_logfile(), and pg_cancel_backend()
return a boolean rather than an integer to indicate success or failure.

Along the way, make some minor cleanups to dbsize.c -- in particular,
use elog() rather than ereport() for "shouldn't happen" error
conditions, and remove some of the more flagrant violations of the
Postgres indentation conventions.

Catalog version bumped.

should surely be timestamptz not timestamp; fix some but not all of the
holes in check_and_make_absolute(); other minor cleanup.  Also put in
the missed catversion bump.

	pg_stat_file()
	pg_read_file()
	pg_ls_dir()
	pg_reload_conf()
	pg_rotate_logfile()

Dave Page
Andreas Pflug

chdir into PGDATA and subsequently use relative paths instead of absolute
paths to access all files under PGDATA.  This seems to give a small
performance improvement, and it should make the system more robust
against naive DBAs doing things like moving a database directory that
has a live postmaster in it.  Per recent discussion.

includes error checking and an appropriate ereport(ERROR) message.
This gets rid of rather tedious and error-prone manipulation of errno,
as well as a Windows-specific bug workaround, at more than a dozen
call sites.  After an idea in a recent patch by Heikki Linnakangas.

communication structure, and make it its own module with its own lock.
This should reduce contention at least a little, and it definitely makes
the code seem cleaner.  Per my recent proposal.

Heikki Linnakangas

files in the server log.

Heikki Linnakangas

Tag appropriate files for rc3

Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to
extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything
where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the
generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only
picked up the right entries ...

and history files as per recent discussion.  While at it, remove
pg_terminate_backend, since we have decided we do not have time during
this release cycle to address the reliability concerns it creates.
Split the 'Miscellaneous Functions' documentation section into
'System Information Functions' and 'System Administration Functions',
which hopefully will draw the eyes of those looking for such things.

 From an idea of Bruce, the attached patch implements the function
 pg_tablespace_databases(oid) RETURNS SETOF oid
 which delivers as set of database oids having objects in the selected
 tablespace, enabling an admin to examine only the databases affecting
 the tablespace for objects instead of scanning all of them.

initdb forced

(cancel and terminate) signals to other backends.   They permit only INT
and TERM, and permits sending only to postgresql backends.

Magnus Hagander

and should do now that we control our own destiny for timezone handling,
but this commit gets the bulk of the picayune diffs in place.
Magnus Hagander and Tom Lane.

$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...

takes two parameters, an OID x and an integer y, and returns "true" with
probability 1/y (the OID argument is ignored). This can be useful -- for
example, it can be used to select a random sampling of the rows in a
table (which is what the "random" regression test uses it for).

This patch removes that function, because it was old and messy. The old
function had the following problems:

- it was undocumented

- it was poorly named

- it was designed to workaround an optimizer bug that no longer exists
(the OID argument is to ensure that the optimizer won't optimize away
calls to the function; AFAIK marking the function as 'volatile' suffices
nowadays)

- it used a different random-number generation technique than the other
PSRNG-related functions in the backend do (it called random() like they
do, but it had its own logic for setting a set and deciding when to
reseed the RNG).

Ok, this patch removes oidrand(), oidsrand(), and userfntest(), and
improves the SGML docs a little bit (un-commenting the setseed()
documentation).

Neil Conway

because c.h has sys/types.h.

Add current_database().

> Quick system function to pull out the current database.
>
> I've used this a number of times to allow stored procedures to find out
> where they are.  Especially useful for those that do logging or hit a
> remote server.
>
> It's called current_database() to match with current_user().

It's also a necessity for an informational schema.  The catalog
(database) name is required in a number of places.

Rod Taylor

tests pass.

that RAND_MAX applies to them, since it doesn't.  Instead add a
config.h parameter MAX_RANDOM_VALUE.  This is currently set at 2^31-1
but could be auto-configured if that ever proves necessary.  Also fix
some outright bugs like calling srand() where srandom() is appropriate.

inputs have been converted to newstyle.  This should go a long way towards
fixing our portability problems with platforms where char and short
parameters are passed differently from int-width parameters.  Still
more to do for the Alpha port however.

  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2000, PostgreSQL, Inc

to all files copyright Regents of Berkeley.  Man, that's a lot of files.

our postmaster random seed used from cancel.

From: Frank Ridderbusch <ridderbusch.pad@sni.de>

Makefile.global.

End result, if all goes well, should allow for much easier porting, since
there will no longer be a concept of a "port".  Most, if not everything,
*should* be determined by configure, or by the compiler itself.  Still
work to be done though :)