links work.

file to be a symlink. We tried to fix this issue with an earlier server-side
patch, but it didn't fix the whole issue.

The same bug is present in older releases as well, but the 8.4 train is
about to leave the station, and I'm not sure if have consensus on whether
we can remove the -l option in back-branches or do we need to attempt a
server-side fix to make symlinking safe.

Patch by Simon Riggs, per discussion on bug identified by Fujii Masao.

section of the docs.  Per suggestion from Brad Bowman.

used to work as intended, but got broken some time ago (a quoted empty string
is not an empty string), and got broken some more by the changes to generate
ecpg's preproc.y automatically.  Given all the unprotected uses of $(PERL)
elsewhere, it seems best to make use of the $(missing) script rather than
trying to ensure each such use is protected individually.  Also fix various
bits of documentation that omitted to mention Perl as a requirement for
building from a CVS pull.  Per a complaint from Robert Haas.

bundle RC2

per David Wheeler

ArrayBuildState, per trouble report from Merlin Moncure.  By adopting
this fix, we are essentially deciding that aggregate final-functions
should not modify their inputs ever.  Adjust documentation and comments
to match that conclusion.

fixed up in the .so links.

This is pretty much a workaround for incomplete tools, but having the man
page names in upper case looks more natural anyway.

per Erik Rijkers

variables. Remove the confusing term "reference cursor".

Most of those changes were good, but some not so good ...

Dimitri Fontaine

time to tag rc1 ...

of getaddrinfo() to work.  Instead, recommend updating the OS to get a working
version of getaddrinfo.  Per recent discussions.

in cursors.  This has always been the case, but given the lack of user
complaints about it, I'm not going to bother back-patching this.

In particular, always show 0 for the date type instead of null, and show
6 (the default) for time, timestamp, and interval without a declared
precision.  This is now in fuller conformance with the SQL standard.

Also clarify the documentation about this.

discovered and analyzed by Konstantin Izmailov and Tom Lane

The original implementation of the 3-argument form of get_raw_page() risked
core dumps if the 8.3 SQL function definition was mistakenly used with the
8.4 module, which is entirely likely after a dump-and-reload upgrade.  To
protect 8.4 beta testers against upgrade problems, add a check on PG_NARGS.

In passing, fix missed additions to the uninstall script, and polish the
docs a trifle.

changes in plpgsql.  Per bug #4843.

the <@ and @> operators.  These are not in fact equivalent to the built-in
anyarray operators of the same names, because they have different behavior for
empty arrays, namely they don't think empty arrays are contained in anything.
That is mathematically wrong, no doubt, but until we can persuade GIN indexes
to implement the mathematical definition we should probably not change this.
Another reason for not changing it now is that we can't yet ensure the
opclasses will be updated correctly in a dump-and-reload upgrade.  Per
recent discussions.

and USER MAPPING as method to supply dblink connect parameters. Per
mailing list and PGCon discussions.

Fujii Masao

by extending the ereport() API to cater for pluralization directly.  This
is better than the original method of calling ngettext outside the elog.c
code because (1) it avoids double translation, which wastes cycles and in
the worst case could give a wrong result; and (2) it avoids having to use
a different coding method in PL code than in the core backend.  The
client-side uses of ngettext are not touched since neither of these concerns
is very pressing in the client environment.  Per my proposal of yesterday.

instead just pointing out that a larger value may trigger use of GEQO.
Per Robert Haas.

In passing, do a bit of wordsmithing on the Genetic Query Optimizer section.

advised.

default usernames versus Kerberos tickets.  Per confusion about what
bug #4824 was really about.

visibility effects in a couple of places where people are likely to look
for it.  Per discussion of recent question from Karl Nack.

an expression that's not supposed to contain variables.  Per discussion
with Gevik Babakhani, this eliminates the need for an ugly kluge (namely,
specifying some unrelated relation name).  Remove one such kluge from
pg_dump.