Ants Aasma, Greg Smith

Kevin Grittner, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Álvaro Herrera

Certain subdirectories do not get built if corresponding options are not
selected at configure time.  However, "make distprep" should visit such
directories anyway, so that constructing derived files to be included in
the tarball happens without requiring all configure options to be given
in the tarball build script.  Likewise, it's better if cleanup actions
unconditionally visit all directories (for example, this ensures proper
cleanup if someone has done a manual make in such a subdirectory).

To handle this, set up a convention that subdirectories that are
conditionally included in SUBDIRS should be added to ALWAYS_SUBDIRS
instead when they are excluded.

Back-patch to 9.1, so that plpython's spiexceptions.h will get provided
in 9.1 tarballs.  There don't appear to be any instances where distprep
actions got missed in previous releases, and anyway this fix requires
gmake 3.80 so we don't want to apply it before 9.1.

This is both very useful in its own right, and an important test case
for the core FDW support.

This commit includes a small refactoring of copy.c to expose its option
checking code as a separately callable function.  The original patch
submission duplicated hundreds of lines of that code, which seemed pretty
unmaintainable.

Shigeru Hanada, reviewed by Itagaki Takahiro and Tom Lane

This is still pretty rough - among other things, the documentation
needs work, and the messages need a visit from the style police -
but this gets the basic framework in place.

KaiGai Kohei

Actually rename the program, rather than just claiming we did.  Hook it
into the build system.  Get rid of useless dependency on libpq.  Clean up
#include list and messy whitespace.

KaiGai Kohei, with a few changes by me.

Replace for loops in makefiles with proper dependencies.  Parallel
make can now span across directories.  Also, make -k and make -q work
properly.

GNU make 3.80 or newer is now required.

This is intended as infrastructure to support integration with label-based
mandatory access control systems such as SE-Linux. Further changes (mostly
hooks) will be needed, but this is a big chunk of it.

KaiGai Kohei and Robert Haas

standalone utility for removing files from archive.

(pg_upgrade_support).

on the buildfarm.

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

Test coverage support now covers the entire source tree, including
contrib, instead of just src/backend.  In a related but independent
development, the commands make coverage and make coverage-html can be run
in any directory.

This turned out to be much easier than feared.  Besides a few ad hoc fixes
to pass the make target down the tree, change all affected makefiles to
list their directories in the SUBDIRS variable, changed from variants like
DIRS and WANTED_DIRS.  MSVC build fix was attempted as well.

Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov

statistics.

Takahiro Itagaki

slow-running queries.

Takahiro Itagaki

David E. Wheeler

auto-configure properly for libxslt present or not.

hard-to-maintain textual examples currently in the SGML docs.  From
Sergey Karpov.

on CORE previously.

This module offers transaction ID's containing the original XID and the
transaction epoch as a bigint value to the user level. It also provides
a special txid_snapshot data type that contains an entire transactions
visibility snapshot information, which is useful to determine if a
particular txid was visible to a transaction or not.

The module has been tested by porting Slony-I from using its original
xxid data type.

Jan

the core additions.  For the moment I diked it out of contrib/Makefile.
We should look at turning it into a backward-compatibility package.

will exit before failing because of conflicting DB usage.  Per discussion,
this seems a good idea to help mask the fact that backend exit takes nonzero
time.  Remove a couple of thereby-obsoleted sleeps in contrib and PL
regression test sequences.

Simon and Heikki

library.  New configure option --with-ossp-uuid to activate.

If this breaks things due to missing libxslt, then I'll have to
revert it, but let's see if it breaks the buildfarm.

Workarounds in case libxslt is missing include:
. don't configure with libxml, or
. don't build contrib modules from the contrib Makefile (use the individual module Makefiles instead), or
. change the xml2 Makefile

  pg_standby is a production-ready program that can be used to
  create a Warm Standby server. Other configuration is required
  as well, all of which is described in the main server manual.

Simon Riggs

remove the old isbn_issn module which is about to be obsoleted by EAN13.
contrib/isn is by Germán Méndez Bravo.  Our thanks to Garrett A. Wollman
for having written the original isbn_issn module.

Per discussion
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg01409.php

dbase, dbmirror, fulltextindex, mac, userlock; or abandoned: mSQL-interface,
tips.

Author: Victor Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>

is done for the analogous files in the main distribution.