main code path for enlarging libpq's input buffer in one swoop when needing to
read a long data message.  Without this, the code will double the buffer size,
read more data, notice it still hasn't got the whole message, and repeat till
it finally has a large enough buffer.  Which wastes a lot of data-moving
effort and also memory (since malloc probably can't do anything very useful
with the freed-up smaller buffers).  Not sure why this wasn't there already;
certainly the COPY data path is a place where we're quite likely to see long
data messages.  I'm not backpatching though, since this is just a marginal
performance issue rather than a real bug.

subquery output column exactly once left-to-right.  Although this is the case
in the original parser output, it might not be so after rewriting and
constant-folding, as illustrated by bug #3882 from Jan Mate.  Instead
scan the subquery's target list to obtain needed per-column information;
this is duplicative of what the parser did, but only a couple dozen lines
need be copied, and we can clean up a couple of notational uglinesses.
Bug was introduced in 8.2 as part of revision of SubLink representation.

constraint, the constraint is renamed as well.  This avoids inconsistent
situations that could confuse pg_dump (not to mention humans).  We might at
some point provide ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT as a more general solution,
but there seems no reason not to allow doing it this way too.  Per bug #3854
and related discussions.

Jun Kuwamura

Erik Rijkers

Marko Kreen

the PATH responsive to the installation prefix, which was the apparent
intent of the previous edit, but not well executed.

fixed length arrays to prevent array's overrun. Per report by
Hannes Dorbath <light@theendofthetunnel.de> and comments by Tom.

ParameterStatus message can be sent during COPY OUT: it's definitely
possible, since COPY from a SELECT subquery can trigger any user-defined
function.

introduced in rewrite to make CLUSTER MVCC-safe.

in whichever context happens to be current during a call of an xml.c function,
use a dedicated context that will not go away until we explicitly delete it
(which we do at transaction end or subtransaction abort).  This makes recovery
after an error much simpler --- we don't have to individually delete the data
structures created by libxml.  Also, we need to initialize and cleanup libxml
only once per transaction (if there's no error) instead of once per function
call, so it should be a bit faster.  We'll need to keep an eye out for
intra-transaction memory leaks, though.  Alvaro and Tom.

>
> * Add the ability to automatically create materialized views
>
>   Right now materialized views require the user to create triggers on the
>   main table to keep the summary table current.  SQL syntax should be able
>   to manager the triggers and summary table automatically.  A more
>   sophisticated implementation would automatically retrieve from the
>   summary table when the main table is referenced, if possible.
>

This is to avoid uselessly requiring superuser permissions to restore
the dump without errors.  Pretty grotty, but no better alternative seems
available, at least not in the near term.

during transaction abort, per my note from a couple days ago.

we need to be able to swallow NOTICE messages, and potentially also
ParameterStatus messages (although the latter would be a bit weird),
without exiting COPY OUT state.  Fix it, and adjust the protocol documentation
to emphasize the need for this.  Per off-list report from Alexander Galler.

distinguished from user-invoked commands.  Per suggestion from Tom Lane.

higher than zero.  Same problem as just detected in CREATE INDEX
CONCURRENTLY.

Noted while looking for heapscans that might need to start from block
zero.

its second pass over the table.  It has to start at block zero, else the
"merge join" logic for detecting which TIDs are already in the index
doesn't work.  Hence, extend heapam.c's API so that callers can enable or
disable syncscan.  (I put in an option to disable buffer access strategy,
too, just in case somebody needs it.)  Per report from Hannes Dorbath.

'english'.

command IDs.

!      Duplicate positions for the same lexeme are discarded.

Therefore we must xmlCleanupParser(), or we risk leaving behind
dangling pointers to whatever memory context is current when xml_init()
is called.  This seems to fix bug #3860, though we might still want
the more invasive solution being worked on by Alvaro.

SPI_prepare() and SPI_cursor_open(), to silence a Coverity warning.

anyway, it is faster to memcpy() than to strcpy().

constraint yields TRUE for every row of its table, only that it does not
yield FALSE (a NULL result isn't disallowed).  This breaks a couple of
implications that would be true in two-valued logic.  I had put in one such
mistake in an 8.2.5 patch: foo IS NULL doesn't refute a strict operator
on foo.  But there was another in the original 8.2 release: NOT foo doesn't
refute an expression whose truth would imply the truth of foo.
Per report from Rajesh Kumar Mallah.

To preserve the ability to do constraint exclusion with one partition
holding NULL values, extend relation_excluded_by_constraints() to check
for attnotnull flags, and add col IS NOT NULL expressions to the set of
constraints we hope to refute.

checking of argument compatibility right; although the problem is only exposed
with multiple-input aggregates in which some arguments are polymorphic and
some are not.  Per bug #3852 from Sokolov Yura.

for unhandled clause types ought to be 0.5, not 1.0.  I fear I introduced
this silliness due to misreading the intent of the very-poorly-structured
code that was there when we inherited the file from Berkeley.  The lack
of sanity in this behavior was exposed by an example from Sim Zacks.
(Arguably this is a bug fix and should be back-patched, but I'm a bit
hesitant to introduce a possible planner behavior change in the back
branches; it might detune queries that worked acceptably in the past.)

While at it, make estimation for DistinctExpr do something marginally
realistic, rather than just defaulting.

> * Add ability to trigger on TRUNCATE
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2008-01/msg00050.php