were discussed last year, but we felt it was too late in the 8.3 cycle to
change the code immediately.  Specifically, the patch:

* Reduces the minimum datum size to be considered for compression from
256 to 32 bytes, as suggested by Greg Stark.

* Increases the required compression rate for compressed storage from
20% to 25%, again per Greg's suggestion.

* Replaces force_input_size (size above which compression is forced)
with a maximum size to be considered for compression.  It was agreed
that allowing large inputs to escape the minimum-compression-rate
requirement was not bright, and that indeed we'd rather have a knob
that acted in the other direction.  I set this value to 1MB for the
moment, but it could use some performance studies to tune it.

* Adds an early-failure path to the compressor as suggested by Jan:
if it's been unable to find even one compressible substring in the
first 1KB (parameterizable), assume we're looking at incompressible
input and give up.  (Possibly this logic can be improved, but I'll
commit it as-is for now.)

* Improves the toasting heuristics so that when we have very large
fields with attstorage 'x' or 'e', we will push those out to toast
storage before considering inline compression of shorter fields.
This also responds to a suggestion of Greg's, though my original
proposal for a solution was a bit off base because it didn't fix
the problem for large 'e' fields.

There was some discussion in the earlier threads of exposing some
of the compression knobs to users, perhaps even on a per-column
basis.  I have not done anything about that here.  It seems to me
that if we are changing around the parameters, we'd better get some
experience and be sure we are happy with the design before we set
things in stone by providing user-visible knobs.

>
> * Add a function like pg_get_indexdef() that report more detailed index
>   information
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-12/msg00166.php
>

>
>
> 	o Prevent autovacuum from running if an old transaction is still
> 	  running from the last vacuum
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00899.php
>

>
> * Allow text search dictionary to filter out only stop words
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-11/msg00081.php

>
> * Consider allowing higher priority queries to have referenced buffer
>   cache pages stay in memory longer
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00562.php

>
> * Improve referential integrity checks
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2005-10/msg00458.php

> 	o Store per-table autovacuum settings in pg_class.reloptions.
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-02/msg01440.php
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00724.php

* Allow multiple identical NOTIFY events to always be communicated to the
  client, rather than sent as a single notification to the listener

  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-01/msg00057.php

> 	o Add SQLSTATE severity to PGconn return status
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2007-11/msg00015.php

TopMemoryContext, rather than scattered through executor per-query contexts.
This poses no danger of memory leak since the ResourceOwner mechanism
guarantees release of no-longer-needed items.  It is needed because the
per-query context might already be released by the time we try to clean up
the hash scan list.  Report by ykhuang, diagnosis by Heikki.

Back-patch to 8.0, where the ResourceOwner-based cleanup was introduced.
The given test case does not fail before 8.2, probably because we rearranged
transaction abort processing somehow; but this coding is undoubtedly risky
so I'll patch 8.0 and 8.1 anyway.

> 	o Have \l+ show database size, if permissions allow
>
> 	  Ideally it will not generate an error for invalid permissions
>

>
> * Add comments on system tables/columns using the information in
>   catalogs.sgml
>
>   Ideally the information would be pulled from the SGML file
>   automatically.
>

a unused memory holes in tsquery.

Per report by Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>.

It was working well because in fact tsquery->size is not used for any
kind of operation except comparing tsqueries. So, in HEAD it's enough to
fix to_tsquery function, but for previous version it's needed to
remove optimization in CompareTSQ to prevent requirement of renew all
stored tsquery.

< 	o Require all check constraints to be inherited
> 	o Require all CHECK constraints to be inherited

>
> 	o Require all check constraints to be inherited
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-04/msg00026.php

> 	o Have \d show foreign keys that reference a table's primary key
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-04/msg00424.php
>
> 	o Have \d show child tables that inherit from the specified parent

* Consider compressing indexes by storing key values duplicated in
  several rows as a single index entry

>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-03/msg00163.php

* Add SQL:2003 WITH RECURSIVE (hierarchical) queries to SELECT

>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-03/msg00139.php

* Consider compressing indexes by storing key values duplicated in
  several rows as a single index entry
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00341.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-02/msg01264.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00465.php
>

* Add SQL:2003 WITH RECURSIVE (hierarchical) queries to SELECT

>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg01375.php

Back patch to 8.3.X.

>
> * Allow client certificate names to be checked against the client
>   hostname
>
>   This is already implemented in
>   libpq/fe-secure.c::verify_peer_name_matches_certificate() but the code
>   is commented out.

>
> * Reduce memory usage of aggregates in set returning functions
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2008-01/msg00031.php
>

>
> 	o Prevent escape string warnings when object names have
> 	  backslashes
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00227.php
>

> * Prevent malicious functions from being executed with the permissions
>   of unsuspecting users
>
>   Index functions are safe, so VACUUM and ANALYZE are safe too.
>   Triggers, CHECK and DEFAULT expressions, and rules are still vulnerable.
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00268.php

just reference them from the localization doc section.

Backpatch to 8.3.X.

< 	o Have CONSTRAINT cname NOT NULL preserve the contraint name
> 	o Have CONSTRAINT cname NOT NULL record the contraint name

>
> 	o Have CONSTRAINT cname NOT NULL preserve the contraint name
>
> 	  Right now pg_attribute.attnotnull records the NOT NULL status
> 	  of the column, but does not record the contraint name
>

TODO categories.

caches that we don't actually need to touch.  This saves some trivial
number of cycles and avoids certain cases of deadlock when doing concurrent
VACUUM FULL on system catalogs.  Per report from Gavin Roy.

Backpatch to 8.2.  In earlier versions, CatalogCacheInitializeCache didn't
lock the relation so there's no deadlock risk (though that certainly had
plenty of risks of its own).

checkpoint timeout can incrase the time needed for crash recovery, per
suggestion from Simon.

* Add support for SQL-standard GENERATED/IDENTITY columns

>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00604.php

* Add SQL:2003 WITH RECURSIVE (hierarchical) queries to SELECT

>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00642.php
>

>
> 	o Allow COPY FROM to create index entries in bulk
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00811.php
>