documentation.  Per suggestion from Marc Cousin.

SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS define instead of just WIN32, since MingW doesn't
support this API (yet?).

This wasn't important when we used diff's -w (--ignore-all-space) option
to compare regression result files, but it is now.  Per buildfarm member
canary, which evidently has been offline since we did that in November,
but came to life again today.

libpq support.

sub-select contains a join alias reference that expands into an expression
containing another sub-select.  Per yesterday's report from Merlin Moncure
and subsequent off-list investigation.

Back-patch to 7.4.  Older versions didn't attempt to flatten sub-selects in
ways that would trigger this problem.

To do that, replace L'\0' by (WCHAR) 0.  Perhaps someday we should teach
pgindent about wide-character literals, but so long as this is the only
use-case in the entire Postgres sources, a workaround seems easier.

caches, per June email thread.

Per extensive discussion on pgsql-hackers.  We are deliberately not
back-patching this even though the behavior of 8.3 and 8.4 is
unquestionably broken, for fear of breaking existing users of this
parameter.  This incompatibility should be release-noted.

flag for src/port/ in front of any -L flags placed in LDFLAGS by configure.
This undoes an L-flag-ordering change that I had thought would be safe,
but seems to be making at least one buildfarm member fail --- the only
theory for orca's failure that I can think of is that it's got an old
copy of libpgport.a in /usr/lib.  Also allow for LDFLAGS_SL to be set by
contrib makefiles before they invoke Makefile.global.

MacOS X uses TCP_KEEPALIVE rather than TCP_KEEPIDLE for this purpose.

Thanks to Fujii Masao for the review.

needs to appear before anything placed in SHLIB_LINK.  This is because
SHLIB_LINK is typically a subset of LIBS, and LIBS has to appear after
LDFLAGS on platforms that are sensitive to the relative order of -L and -l
switches.

Per buildfarm results.

stay in front of LDFLAGS.

Solaris, at least, seems to be sensitive to the relative order of -L
and -l switches, so this is needed.  Per buildfarm results.

supposing that they should set SHLIB_LINK rather than LDFLAGS_SL.  Since these
don't go through Makefile.shlib that was a no-op on most platforms.  Also
regularize the few platform-specific Makefiles that did pay attention to
SHLIB_LINK: it seems that the real value of that is to pull in BE_DLLLIBS,
so do that instead.  Per buildfarm failures on cygwin.

linking both executables and shared libraries, and we add on LDFLAGS_EX when
linking executables or LDFLAGS_SL when linking shared libraries.  This
provides a significantly cleaner way of dealing with link-time switches than
the former behavior.  Also, make sure that the various platform-specific
%.so: %.o rules incorporate LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS_SL; most of them missed that
before.  (I did not add these variables for the platforms that invoke $(LD)
directly, however.  It's not clear if we can do that safely, since for the
most part we assume these variables use CC command-line syntax.)

Per gripe from Aaron Swenson and subsequent investigation.

being used in a PL/pgSQL FOR loop is closed was inadequate, as Tom Lane
pointed out. The bug affects FOR statement variants too, because you can
close an implicitly created cursor too by guessing the "<unnamed portal X>"
name created for it.

To fix that, "pin" the portal to prevent it from being dropped while it's
being used in a PL/pgSQL FOR loop. Backpatch all the way to 7.4 which is
the oldest supported version.

idea from the start since the variable is only meant to track commit/abort
events.  This patch reverts the logic around the variable to what it was in
8.4, except that the value is now kept in shared memory rather than a static
variable, so that it can be reported correctly by CreateRestartPoint (which is
executed in the bgwriter).

to have different values in different processes of the primary server.
Also put it into the "Streaming Replication" GUC category; it doesn't belong
in "Standby Servers" because you use it on the master not the standby.
In passing also correct guc.c's idea of wal_keep_segments' category.

max_standby_streaming_delay, and revise the implementation to avoid assuming
that timestamps found in WAL records can meaningfully be compared to clock
time on the standby server.  Instead, the delay limits are compared to the
elapsed time since we last obtained a new WAL segment from archive or since
we were last "caught up" to WAL data arriving via streaming replication.
This avoids problems with clock skew between primary and standby, as well
as other corner cases that the original coding would misbehave in, such
as the primary server having significant idle time between transactions.
Per my complaint some time ago and considerable ensuing discussion.

Do some desultory editing on the hot standby documentation, too.

Nikolay Samokhvalov

from Tom.

Backpatch to 8.3, which is as far back as we have opfamilies.
The opclass portion could probably be backpatched to 8.2, when
REASSIGN OWNED was added, but for now I have not done that.

Asko Tiidumaa, with minor adjustments by me.

formats for geometric types.  Per bug #5536 from Jon Strait, and my own
testing.

Back-patch to all supported branches, since this doco has been wrong right
along -- we certainly haven't changed the I/O behavior of these types in
many years.

Erik Rijkers

David Wheeler, with one small correction by me.

The previous commit to make copydir() interruptible prevented
postgres.exe from linking on MinGW and Cygwin, because on those
platforms libpgport_srv.a can't freely reference symbols defined
by the backend.  Since that code is already backend-specific anyway,
just move the whole file into the backend rather than adding further
kludges to deal with the symbols needed by CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS().

This probably needs some further cleanup, but this commit just moves
the file as-is, which should hopefully be enough to turn the
buildfarm green again.