At least two recent commits have apparently imagined that a comment in
a Makefile stating that something would be included in the distribution
tarball was sufficient to make it so.  They hadn't bothered to hook
into the upper maintainer-clean targets either.  Per bug #5923 from
Charles Johnson, in which it emerged that the 9.1alpha4 tarballs are
short a few files that should be there.

This fixes make distprep, and seems more robust in other ways as well.
Some special handling is required because errcodes.txt is needed by
some stuff in src/port, but just by src/backend as is the case for the
other generated headers.

While I'm at it, fix a few other things that were overlooked in the
original patch.

More fallout from ddfe26f6.

Report by Fujii Masao.

src/pl/plpgsql/src/plerrcodes.h, src/include/utils/errcodes.h, and a
big chunk of errcodes.sgml are now automatically generated from a single
file, src/backend/utils/errcodes.txt.

Jan Urbański, reviewed by Tom Lane.

Add some additional dependencies to constrain the build order to prevent
parallel make from failing.  In the case of src/Makefile, this is likely to be
too complicated to be worth maintaining, so just add .NOTPARALLEL to get the
old for-loop-like behavior.

More fine-tuning might be necessary for some platforms or configurations.

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.

walreceiver as whole into a dynamically loaded module, split the
libpq-specific parts of it into dynamically loaded module and keep the rest
in the main backend binary.

Although Tom fixed the Windows compilation problems with the old walreceiver
module already, this is a cleaner division of labour and makes the code
more readable. There's also the prospect of adding new transport methods
as pluggable modules in the future, which this patch makes easier, though for
now the API between libpqwalreceiver and walreceiver process should be
considered private.

The libpq-specific module is now in src/backend/replication/libpqwalreceiver,
and the part linked with postgres binary is in
src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c.

process, after src/interfaces, because it depends on libpq. Also add
missing lines for clean etc. targets

Report from Boszormenyi Zoltan.

This includes two new kinds of postmaster processes, walsenders and
walreceiver. Walreceiver is responsible for connecting to the primary server
and streaming WAL to disk, while walsender runs in the primary server and
streams WAL from disk to the client.

Documentation still needs work, but the basics are there. We will probably
pull the replication section to a new chapter later on, as well as the
sections describing file-based replication. But let's do that as a separate
patch, so that it's easier to see what has been added/changed. This patch
also adds a new section to the chapter about FE/BE protocol, documenting the
protocol used by walsender/walreceivxer.

Bump catalog version because of two new functions,
pg_last_xlog_receive_location() and pg_last_xlog_replay_location(), for
monitoring the progress of replication.

Fujii Masao, with additional hacking by me

Update install-sh to that from Autoconf 2.63, plus our Darwin-specific
changes (which I simplified a bit).  install-sh is now able to install
multiple files in one run, so we could simplify our makefiles sometime.

install-sh also now has a -d option to create directories, so we don't need
mkinstalldirs anymore.

Use AC_PROG_MKDIR_P in configure.in, so we can use mkdir -p when available
instead of install-sh -d.  For consistency with the rest of the world,
the corresponding make variable has been renamed from $(mkinstalldirs) to
$(MKDIR_P).

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.

wrappers (similar to procedural languages).  This way we don't need to retain
the nearly empty libraries, and we are more free in how to implement the
wrapper API in the future.

This doesn't do any remote or external things yet, but it gives modules
like plproxy and dblink a standardized and future-proof system for
managing their connection information.

Martin Pihlak and Peter Eisentraut

errors in any commands, including in various clean targets that have so far
been handled inconsistently.  make -i is available to ignore all errors in
a consistent and official way.

Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, but I did a lot of editorializing,
so anything that's broken is probably my fault.

Documentation is nonexistent as yet, but let's land the patch so we can
get some portability testing done.

and there was some question about its copyright status.

tutorial to be used without necessarily having a configured source tree.

"make pgxs install by default". It is up to the committers to chose.

(1) there is only one "install" target. no more "install-all-headers".
    it simplifies/changes several makefiles.

(2) the documentation reflects the change.

(3) a minor fix on pgxs to use a nicer patch without a double slash.

Fabien Coelho

>
> The patch adds missing the "libpgport.a" file to the installation under
> "install-all-headers". It is needed by some contribs. I install the
> library in "pkglibdir", but I was wondering whether it should be "libdir"?
> I was wondering also whether it would make sense to have a "libpgport.so"?
>
> It fixes various macros which are used by contrib makefiles, especially
> libpq_*dir and LDFLAGS when used under PGXS. It seems to me that they are
> needed to
>
> It adds the ability to test and use PGXS with contribs, with "make
> USE_PGXS=1". Without the macro, this is exactly as before, there should be
> no difference, esp. wrt the vpath feature that seemed broken by previous
> submission. So it should not harm anybody, and it is useful at least to me.
>
> It fixes some inconsistencies in various contrib makefiles
> (useless override, ":=" instead of "=").

Fabien COELHO

some massaging by Peter Eisentraut.  This is basically a simple
generalization of the existing contrib makefiles.

Timezone code backend integration done by Magnus Hagander.

$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...

Eliminate the mysterious games that the Cygwin build plays with the linker
flag variables.  DLLLIBS is gone, use SHLIB_LINK like everyone else.
Detect cygipc in configure, after the linker flags are set up, otherwise
configure might not work at all.

Make sure everything is covered by make clean.

Fix the build of the new conversion procedure modules.

Add new DLLIMPORT markers where required.

Finally, the compiler complains if we use an explicit
-I/usr/local/include, so don't do that.  Curiously, -L/usr/local/lib is
still necessary.

'make install'; there are enough of 'em that this slowed down the make
noticeably.  Ensure that 'all' is the default make target in all these
directories (defaulting to 'make install' is surprising and dangerous
IMHO).  Fix a couple small typos.

Some makefile simplifications.

  src/GNUmakefile.in to src/Makefile
and
  src/backend/port/Makefile.in to src/backend/port/Makefile

All configure substitutions are now done in Makefile.global.

are now separate files "postgres.h" and "postgres_fe.h", which are meant
to be the primary include files for backend .c files and frontend .c files
respectively.  By default, only include files meant for frontend use are
installed into the installation include directory.  There is a new make
target 'make install-all-headers' that adds the whole content of the
src/include tree to the installed fileset, for use by people who want to
develop server-side code without keeping the complete source tree on hand.
Cleaned up a whole lot of crufty and inconsistent header inclusions.

(The test 'make --version' with FreeBSD make (and potentially others)
would just reinvoke make on the same Makefile, resulting in an infinite
loop.)

don't accidentally use non-GNU make.