delta/postgresql.git, branch REL8_3_15

Tag 8.3.15.

2011-04-15T03:18:15+00:00

Translation updates

2011-04-14T20:30:43+00:00

Update release notes for releases 9.0.4, 8.4.8, 8.3.15, and 8.2.21.

2011-04-14T19:51:50+00:00

Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2011f.

2011-04-13T22:05:09+00:00

DST law changes in Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Morocco, Samoa, Turkey.
Historical corrections for South Australia, Alaska, Hawaii.

On IA64 architecture, we check the depth of the register stack in addition

2011-04-13T08:53:19+00:00

to the regular stack. The code to do that is platform and compiler specific,
add support for the HP-UX native compiler.

Avoid use of mixed slash style paths in arguments to xcopy in MSVC builds.

2011-04-08T02:16:16+00:00

Some versions of xcopy, notably on Windows 7 don't like it. Backpatch
to 8.3, where we first used xcopy.

Modernize dlopen interface code for FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

2011-04-07T19:14:56+00:00

Remove the hard-wired assumption that __mips__ (and only __mips__) lacks
dlopen in FreeBSD and OpenBSD.  This assumption is outdated at least for
OpenBSD, as per report from an anonymous 9.1 tester.  We can perfectly well
use HAVE_DLOPEN instead to decide which code to use.

Some other cosmetic adjustments to make freebsd.c, netbsd.c, and openbsd.c
exactly alike.

Fix SortTocFromFile() to cope with lines that are too long for its buffer.

2011-04-07T15:40:39+00:00

The original coding supposed that a dump TOC file could never contain lines
longer than 1K.  The folly of that was exposed by a recent report from
Per-Olov Esgard.  We only really need to see the first dozen or two bytes
of each line, since we're just trying to read off the numeric ID at the
start of the line; so there's no need for a particularly huge buffer.
What there is a need for is logic to not process continuation bufferloads.

Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's always been like this.

Prevent a rowtype from being included in itself.

2011-03-28T19:45:14+00:00

Eventually we might be able to allow that, but it's not clear how many
places need to be fixed to prevent infinite recursion when there's a direct
or indirect inclusion of a rowtype in itself.  One such place is
CheckAttributeType(), which will recurse to stack overflow in cases such as
those exhibited in bug #5950 from Alex Perepelica.  If we were sure it was
the only such place, we could easily modify the code added by this patch to
stop the recursion without a complaint ... but it probably isn't the only
such place.  Hence, throw error until such time as someone is excited
enough about this type of usage to put work into making it safe.

Back-patch as far as 8.3.  8.2 doesn't have the recursive call in
CheckAttributeType in the first place, so I see no need to add code there
in the absence of clear evidence of a problem elsewhere.

Correct "characters" to "bytes" in createdb docs.

2011-03-28T01:29:22+00:00

Susanne Ebrecht