Valid values are --pre-data, data and post-data. The option can be
given more than once. --schema-only is equivalent to
--section=pre-data --section=post-data. --data-only is equivalent
to --section=data.

Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Joachim Wieland and Josh Berkus.

This works the same as include, except that an error is not thrown
if the file is missing. Instead the fact that it's missing is
logged.

Greg Smith, reviewed by Euler Taveira de Oliveira.

Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Josh Berkus, Robert Haas and Peter Geoghegan.

This allows dumping of a table definition but not its data, on a per table basis.
Table name patterns are supported just as for --exclude-table.

Yeb Havinga, reviewed by Kevin Grittner, with small changes by me.

Instead, add a function pg_tablespace_location(oid) used to return
the same information, and do this by reading the symbolic link.

Doing it this way makes it possible to relocate a tablespace when the
database is down by simply changing the symbolic link.

This patch creates an API whereby a btree index opclass can optionally
provide non-SQL-callable support functions for sorting.  In the initial
patch, we only use this to provide a directly-callable comparator function,
which can be invoked with a bit less overhead than the traditional
SQL-callable comparator.  While that should be of value in itself, the real
reason for doing this is to provide a datatype-extensible framework for
more aggressive optimizations, as in Peter Geoghegan's recent work.

Robert Haas and Tom Lane

If unable to connect to "postgres", try "template1".  This allows things to
work more smoothly in the case where the postgres database has been
dropped.  And just in case that's not good enough, also allow the user to
specify a maintenance database to be used for the initial connection, to
cover the case where neither postgres nor template1 is suitable.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira

preserve pg_class oids since PG 9.0.

Add a function plpy.cursor that is similar to plpy.execute but uses an
SPI cursor to avoid fetching the entire result set into memory.

Jan Urbański, reviewed by Steve Singer

This can be used to set (or unset) environment variables that will
affect programs called by psql (such as the PAGER), probably most
usefully in a .psqlrc file.

Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Josh Kupershmidt.

The CREATE EXTENSION step does this automatically. Doing it again will
cause an error.

Tom Lane, with minor adjustments by me.

PGresults used to be read-only from the application's viewpoint, but now
that we've exposed various functions that allow modification of a PGresult,
that sweeping statement is no longer accurate.  Noted by Dmitriy Igrishin.

The point that you need parentheses for non-constant expressions apparently
needs to be brought out a bit more clearly, per bug #6315.

Josh Berkus

Per Emmanuel Kasper, sysctl works fine as of NetBSD 5.0.

Greg Smith

The correct information appears in the text, so just remove the statement
in the table, where it did not fit nicely anyway.  (Curiously, the correct
info has been there much longer than the erroneous table entry.)
Resolves problem noted by Daniele Varrazzo.

In HEAD and 9.1, also do a bit of wordsmithing on other text on the page.

This can be used to remove the overhead of SSL compression on
fast networks.

Laurenz Albe

The WITH [NO] DATA option was not supported, nor the ability to specify
replacement column names; the former limitation wasn't even documented, as
per recent complaint from Naoya Anzai.  Fix by moving the responsibility
for supporting these options into the executor.  It actually takes less
code this way ...

catversion bump due to change in representation of IntoClause, which might
affect stored rules.

Be more thorough about specifying the expectations for canonical and
subtype_diff functions, and move that info to the same place.

It's not clear that a per-datatype typanalyze function would be any more
useful than a generic typanalyze for ranges.  What *is* clear is that
letting unprivileged users select typanalyze functions is a crash risk or
worse.  So remove the option from CREATE TYPE AS RANGE, and instead put in
a generic typanalyze function for ranges.  The generic function does
nothing as yet, but hopefully we'll improve that before 9.2 release.

Per discussion, the zero-argument forms aren't really worth the catalog
space (just write 'empty' instead).  The one-argument forms have some use,
but they also have a serious problem with looking too much like functional
cast notation; to the point where in many real use-cases, the parser would
misinterpret what was wanted.

Committing this as a separate patch, with the thought that we might want
to revert part or all of it if we can think of some way around the cast
ambiguity.

Fix some bugs in coercion logic and pg_dump; more comment cleanup;
minor cosmetic improvements.

Lots of documentation cleanup today, and still more type_sanity tests.

For a very long time, one of the parser's heuristics for resolving
ambiguous operator calls has been to assume that unknown-type literals are
of the same type as the other input (if it's known).  However, this was
only used in the first step of quickly checking for an exact-types match,
and thus did not help in resolving matches that require coercion, such as
matches to polymorphic operators.  As we add more polymorphic operators,
this becomes more of a problem.  This patch adds another use of the same
heuristic as a last-ditch check before failing to resolve an ambiguous
operator or function call.  In particular this will let us define the range
inclusion operator in a less limited way (to come in a follow-on patch).

A very long time ago, language names were specified as literals rather
than identifiers, so this code was added to do case-folding.  But that
style has ben deprecated for many years so this isn't needed any more.
Language names will still be downcased when specified as unquoted
identifiers, but quoted identifiers or the old style using string
literals will be left as-is.

Change range_lower and range_upper to return NULL rather than throwing an
error when the input range is empty or the relevant bound is infinite.  Per
discussion, throwing an error seems likely to be unduly hard to work with.
Also, this is more consistent with the behavior of the constructors, which
treat NULL as meaning an infinite bound.

Change range_before, range_after, range_adjacent to return false rather
than throwing an error when one or both input ranges are empty.

The original definition is unnecessarily difficult to use, and also can
result in undesirable planner failures since the planner could try to
compare an empty range to something else while deriving statistical
estimates.  (This was, in fact, the cause of repeatable regression test
failures on buildfarm member jaguar, as well as intermittent failures
elsewhere.)

Also tweak rangetypes regression test to not drop all the objects it
creates, so that the final state of the regression database contains
some rangetype objects for pg_dump testing.

This adds the "auto" option to the \x command, which switches to the
expanded mode when the normal output would be wider than the screen.

reviewed by Noah Misch