Teodor Sigaev, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.

CONCURRENTLY.

Gregory Stark

pg_type.typtype whereever practical.  Tom Dunstan, with some kibitzing
from Tom Lane.

A DBA is allowed to create a language in his database if it's marked
"tmpldbacreate" in pg_pltemplate.  The factory default is that this is set
for all standard trusted languages, but of course a superuser may adjust
the settings.  In service of this, add the long-foreseen owner column to
pg_language; renaming, dropping, and altering owner of a PL now follow
normal ownership rules instead of being superuser-only.
Jeremy Drake, with some editorialization by Tom Lane.

rules to be defined with different, per session controllable, behaviors
for replication purposes.

This will allow replication systems like Slony-I and, as has been stated
on pgsql-hackers, other products to control the firing mechanism of
triggers and rewrite rules without modifying the system catalog directly.

The firing mechanisms are controlled by a new superuser-only GUC
variable, session_replication_role, together with a change to
pg_trigger.tgenabled and a new column pg_rewrite.ev_enabled. Both
columns are a single char data type now (tgenabled was a bool before).
The possible values in these attributes are:

     'O' - Trigger/Rule fires when session_replication_role is "origin"
           (default) or "local". This is the default behavior.

     'D' - Trigger/Rule is disabled and fires never

     'A' - Trigger/Rule fires always regardless of the setting of
           session_replication_role

     'R' - Trigger/Rule fires when session_replication_role is "replica"

The GUC variable can only be changed as long as the system does not have
any cached query plans. This will prevent changing the session role and
accidentally executing stored procedures or functions that have plans
cached that expand to the wrong query set due to differences in the rule
firing semantics.

The SQL syntax for changing a triggers/rules firing semantics is

     ALTER TABLE <tabname> <when> TRIGGER|RULE <name>;

     <when> ::= ENABLE | ENABLE ALWAYS | ENABLE REPLICA | DISABLE

psql's \d command as well as pg_dump are extended in a backward
compatible fashion.

Jan

Greg Sabino Mullane

toggle.

Chad Wagner

Chad Wagner

in the future.

environment variables.  Backpatch to 8.2.X.

anyone cares because the last history change was for PostgreSQL 7.1.

startup and bgwriter processes), and the -y flag.  It's not used anywhere.

copied-and-pasted text in a more useful location.

Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:

        may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."

        can - ability, "I can lift that log."

        might - possibility, "It might rain today."

Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice.  Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".

and --password for pg_dump, pg_dumpall and pg_restore, per complaint by
Michael Schmidt. Patch from Magnus Hagander.

created and increments.  The old docs created the sequence, then showed
a nextval() of 114.

appropriate.

Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:

        may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."

        can - ability, "I can lift that log."

        might - possibility, "It might rain today."

Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice.  Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".

where output redirection of child processes (pg_dump) doesn't work.

Dave Page

'template1'.

Dave Page

Dave Page

FAMILY; and add FAMILY option to CREATE OPERATOR CLASS to allow adding a
class to a pre-existing family.  Per previous discussion.  Man, what a
tedious lot of cutting and pasting ...

columns procost and prorows, to allow simple user adjustment of the estimated
cost of a function call, as well as control of the estimated number of rows
returned by a set-returning function.  We might eventually wish to extend this
to allow function-specific estimation routines, but there seems to be
consensus that we should try a simple constant estimate first.  In particular
this provides a relatively simple way to control the order in which different
WHERE clauses are applied in a plan node, which is a Good Thing in view of the
fact that the recent EquivalenceClass planner rewrite made that much less
predictable than before.

HTML in HTML mode. Patch from Jeremy Drake.

roles and tablespaces, no longer users and groups. Per Dave Page.

Backport to 8.2 and 8.1.

out the common error that ORDER BY x, y DESC does not mean the same as
ORDER BY x DESC, y DESC.

per-column options for btree indexes.  The planner's support for this is still
pretty rudimentary; it does not yet know how to plan mergejoins with
nondefault ordering options.  The documentation is pretty rudimentary, too.
I'll work on improving that stuff later.

Note incompatible change from prior behavior: ORDER BY ... USING will now be
rejected if the operator is not a less-than or greater-than member of some
btree opclass.  This prevents less-than-sane behavior if an operator that
doesn't actually define a proper sort ordering is selected.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira

Call setrlimit if possible in pg_regress to allow core file generation, and provide a switch for similar behaviour in pg_ctl.

an optarg).  Add some comments noting that code in three different files has
to be kept in sync.  Fix erroneous description of -S switch (it sets work_mem
not silent_mode), and do some light copy-editing elsewhere in postgres-ref.

about typmod representation for standard types out into type-specific
typmod I/O functions.  Teodor Sigaev, with some editorialization by
Tom Lane.