== PostgreSQL Weekly News - October 29 2017 ==

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - October 29 2017 ==

The German-speaking PostgreSQL Conference 2018 will take place on April 13th,
2018 in Berlin. The CfP is open until January 09, 2018 at
http://2018.pgconf.de/de/callforpapers.html and the conference site is at
http://2018.pgconf.de/

== PostgreSQL Product News ==

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility released.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/announcing-general-availability-of-amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility/

A PostgreSQL RPM repository for SLES 12 has been set up at:
https://zypp.postgresql.org/

pg_filedump 10.0 a utility to format PostgreSQL heap/index/control files into a
human-readable form, released.
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pg_filedump

== PostgreSQL Jobs for October ==

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2017-10/

== PostgreSQL Local ==

pgday.Seoul 2017 will be held in Seoul, South Korea on November 4, 2017.
Korean language information is here:
http://pgday.postgresql.kr/

2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL Conference 2017 (2Q PGConf, for short) will be hosted on
November 6th & 7th in New York City, and November 9th in Chicago.
http://www.2qpgconf.com/

PGConf Local: Seattle will be held November 13 - 14, 2017.
https://www.pgconf.us/#Seattle2017

PGDay Australia 2017 will be held on November 17 in Melbourne.
http://2017.pgday.com.au/

PostgreSQL Session will take place November 17th, 2017, in Paris, France.
http://www.postgresql-sessions.org/en/9/start

PGDAY Brasilia 2017 will take place December 2, 2017. The CfP
is open at
http://www.pgdaybrasilia.com.br/submissao-de-palestra/

PGConf Local: Austin will be held December 4 - 5, 2017. Call for Papers is
now open at https://www.pgconf.us/conferences/Austin2017

PGConf.ASIA 2017 will take place on December 4-6 2017 in Akihabara, Tokyo,
Japan.
http://www.pgconf.asia/EN/2017/

FOSDEM PGDay 2018, a one day conference held before the main FOSDEM event will
be held in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb 2nd, 2018.
https://2018.fosdempgday.org/

PGConf India 2018 will be on February 22-23, 2018 in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Proposals are due via https://goo.gl/forms/F9hRjOIsaNasVOAz2 by October 31st, 2017.
http://pgconf.in/

PostgreSQL(at)SCaLE is a two day, two track event which takes place on
March 8-9, 2018, at Pasadena Convention Center, as part of SCaLE 16X.
The CfP is open through October 31, 2017 at
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/16x/cfp

PGConf APAC 2018 will be held in Singapore March 22-24, 2018. The CfP is open
at http://2018.pgconfapac.org/cfp through December 4, 2017.
http://2018.pgconfapac.org/

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== Applied Patches ==

Tom Lane pushed:

- Adjust psql \d query to avoid use of @> operator. It seems that the
parray_gin extension has seen fit to introduce a "text[] @> text[]" operator,
which conflicts with the core "anyarray @> anyarray" operator, causing
ambiguous-operator failures if the input arguments are coercible to text[]
without being exactly that type. This strikes me as a bad idea, but it's out
there and people use it. As of v10, that breaks psql's query that tries to
test "pg_statistic_ext.stxkind @> '{d}'", since stxkind is char[]. The best
workaround seems to be to avoid use of that operator. We can use a
scalar-vs-array test "'d' = any(stxkind)" instead; that's arguably more
readable anyway. Per report from Justin Pryzby. Backpatch to v10 where this
query was added. Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/20171022181525.GA21884@telsasoft.com
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/471d55859c11b40059aef7dd82f82b3a0dc338b1

- Adjust psql \d query to avoid use of @> operator. It seems that the
parray_gin extension has seen fit to introduce a "text[] @> text[]" operator,
which conflicts with the core "anyarray @> anyarray" operator, causing
ambiguous-operator failures if the input arguments are coercible to text[]
without being exactly that type. This strikes me as a bad idea, but it's out
there and people use it. As of v10, that breaks psql's query that tries to
test "pg_statistic_ext.stxkind @> '{d}'", since stxkind is char[]. The best
workaround seems to be to avoid use of that operator. We can use a
scalar-vs-array test "'d' = any(stxkind)" instead; that's arguably more
readable anyway. Per report from Justin Pryzby. Backpatch to v10 where this
query was added. Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/20171022181525.GA21884@telsasoft.com
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/471d55859c11b40059aef7dd82f82b3a0dc338b1

- Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2017c. This is
a trivial update containing only cosmetic changes. The point is just to get
back to being synced with an official release of tzcode, rather than some
ad-hoc point in their commit history, which is where commit 47f849a3c left it.
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/24a1897ab92646795bf065aa1b9d266aba74469f

- Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2017c. DST law changes in Fiji,
Namibia, Northern Cyprus, Sudan, Tonga, and Turks & Caicos Islands.
Historical corrections for Alaska, Apia, Burma, Calcutta, Detroit, Ireland,
Namibia, and Pago Pago.
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8df4ce1eac7835d87d89a4fc4d5d3ae5554f87b7

- Documentation improvements around domain types. I was a bit surprised to find
that domains were almost completely unmentioned in the main SGML
documentation, outside of the reference pages for CREATE/ALTER/DROP DOMAIN.
In particular, noplace was it mentioned that we don't support domains over
composite, making it hard to document the planned fix for that. Hence, add a
section about domains to chapter 8 (Data Types). Also, modernize the type
system overview in section 37.2; it had never heard of range types, and
insisted on calling arrays base types, which seems a bit odd from a user's
perspective; furthermore it didn't fit well with the fact that we now support
arrays over types other than base types. It seems appropriate to use the term
"container types" to describe all of arrays, composites, and ranges, so let's
do that. Also a few other minor improvements, notably improve an example
query in rowtypes.sgml by using a LATERAL function instead of an ad-hoc OFFSET
0 clause. In part this is mop-up for commit c12d570fa, which missed updating
37.2 to reflect the fact that it added arrays of domains. We could possibly
back-patch this without that claim, but I don't feel a strong need to.
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a32c0923b4da7f7df95616aaecbb85ef9f12f93f

- Documentation improvements around domain types. I was a bit surprised to find
that domains were almost completely unmentioned in the main SGML
documentation, outside of the reference pages for CREATE/ALTER/DROP DOMAIN.
In particular, noplace was it mentioned that we don't support domains over
composite, making it hard to document the planned fix for that. Hence, add a
section about domains to chapter 8 (Data Types). Also, modernize the type
system overview in section 37.2; it had never heard of range types, and
insisted on calling arrays base types, which seems a bit odd from a user's
perspective; furthermore it didn't fit well with the fact that we now support
arrays over types other than base types. It seems appropriate to use the term
"container types" to describe all of arrays, composites, and ranges, so let's
do that. Also a few other minor improvements, notably improve an example
query in rowtypes.sgml by using a LATERAL function instead of an ad-hoc OFFSET
0 clause. In part this is mop-up for commit c12d570fa, which missed updating
37.2 to reflect the fact that it added arrays of domains. We could possibly
back-patch this without that claim, but I don't feel a strong need to.
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a32c0923b4da7f7df95616aaecbb85ef9f12f93f

- Documentation improvements around domain types. I was a bit surprised to find
that domains were almost completely unmentioned in the main SGML
documentation, outside of the reference pages for CREATE/ALTER/DROP DOMAIN.
In particular, noplace was it mentioned that we don't support domains over
composite, making it hard to document the planned fix for that. Hence, add a
section about domains to chapter 8 (Data Types). Also, modernize the type
system overview in section 37.2; it had never heard of range types, and
insisted on calling arrays base types, which seems a bit odd from a user's
perspective; furthermore it didn't fit well with the fact that we now support
arrays over types other than base types. It seems appropriate to use the term
"container types" to describe all of arrays, composites, and ranges, so let's
do that. Also a few other minor improvements, notably improve an example
query in rowtypes.sgml by using a LATERAL function instead of an ad-hoc OFFSET
0 clause. In part this is mop-up for commit c12d570fa, which missed updating
37.2 to reflect the fact that it added arrays of domains. We could possibly
back-patch this without that claim, but I don't feel a strong need to.
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a32c0923b4da7f7df95616aaecbb85ef9f12f93f

- Make setrefs.c match by ressortgroupref even for plain Vars. Previously, we
skipped using search_indexed_tlist_for_sortgroupref() if the tlist expression
being sought in the child plan node was merely a Var. This is purely an
optimization, based on the theory that search_indexed_tlist_for_var() is
faster, and one copy of a Var should be as good as another. However, the
GROUPING SETS patch broke the latter assumption: grouping columns containing
the "same" Var can sometimes have different outputs, as shown in the test case
added here. So do it the hard way whenever a ressortgroupref marking exists.
(If this seems like a bottleneck, we could imagine building a tlist index data
structure for ressortgroupref values, as we do for Vars. But I'll let that
idea go until there's some evidence it's worthwhile.) Back-patch to 9.6. The
problem also exists in 9.5 where GROUPING SETS came in, but this patch is
insufficient to resolve the problem in 9.5: there is some obscure dependency
on the upper-planner-pathification work that happened in 9.6. Given that this
is such a weird corner case, and no end users have complained about it, it
doesn't seem worth the work to develop a fix for 9.5. Patch by me, per a
report from Heikki Linnakangas. (This does not fix Heikki's original
complaint, just the follow-on one.) Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/aefc657e-edb2-64d5-6df1-a0828f6e9104@iki.fi
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/08f1e1f0a47b4b0e87b07b9794698747b279c711

- Support domains over composite types. This is the last major omission in our
domains feature: you can now make a domain over anything that's not a
pseudotype. The major complication from an implementation standpoint is that
places that might be creating tuples of a domain type now need to be prepared
to apply domain_check(). It seems better that unprepared code fail with an
error like "<type> is not composite" than that it silently fail to apply
domain constraints. Therefore, relevant infrastructure like
get_func_result_type() and lookup_rowtype_tupdesc() has been adjusted to treat
domain-over-composite as a distinct case that unprepared code won't recognize,
rather than just transparently treating it the same as plain composite. This
isn't a 100% solution to the possibility of overlooked domain checks, but it
catches most places. In passing, improve typcache.c's support for domains (it
can now cache the identity of a domain's base type), and rewrite the argument
handling logic in jsonfuncs.c's populate_record[set]_worker to reduce
duplicative per-call lookups. I believe this is code-complete so far as the
core and contrib code go. The PLs need varying amounts of work, which will be
tackled in followup patches. Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/4206.1499798337@sss.pgh.pa.us
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/37a795a60b4f4b1def11c615525ec5e0e9449e05

- Support domains over composite types in PL/Tcl. Since PL/Tcl does little with
SQL types internally, this is just a matter of making it work with
composite-domain function arguments and results. In passing, make it allow
RECORD-type arguments --- that's a trivial change that nobody had bothered
with up to now. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4206.1499798337@sss.pgh.pa.us
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/820c0305f64507490f00b6220f9175a303c821dd

- Doc: mention that you can't PREPARE TRANSACTION after NOTIFY. The NOTIFY page
said this already, but the PREPARE TRANSACTION page missed it. Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/20171024010602.1488.80066@wrigleys.postgresql.org
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e4fbf22831c2bbcf032ee60a327b871d2364b3f5

- Rethink the dependencies recorded for FieldSelect/FieldStore nodes. On closer
investigation, commits f3ea3e3e8 et al were a few bricks shy of a load. What
we need is not so much to lock down the result type of a FieldSelect, as to
lock down the existence of the column it's trying to extract. Otherwise, we
can break it by dropping that column. The dependency on the result type is
then held indirectly through the column, and doesn't need to be recorded
explicitly. Out of paranoia, I left in the code to record a dependency on the
result type, but it's used only if we can't identify the pg_class OID for the
column. That shouldn't ever happen right now, AFAICS, but it seems possible
that in future the input node could be marked as being of type RECORD rather
than some specific composite type. Likewise for FieldStore. Like the
previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/22571.1509064146@sss.pgh.pa.us
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6784d7a1dc69d53b7f41eebf62bf7ffd63885294

- Fix crash when columns have been added to the end of a view. expandRTE()
supposed that an RTE_SUBQUERY subquery must have exactly as many non-junk
tlist items as the RTE has column aliases for it. This was true at the time
the code was written, and is still true so far as parse analysis is concerned
--- but when the function is used during planning, the subquery might have
appeared through insertion of a view that now has more columns than it did
when the outer query was parsed. This results in a core dump if, for
instance, we have to expand a whole-row Var that references the subquery. To
avoid crashing, we can either stop expanding the RTE when we run out of
aliases, or invent new aliases for the added columns. While the latter might
be more useful, the former is consistent with what expandRTE() does for
composite-returning functions in the RTE_FUNCTION case, so it seems like we'd
better do it that way. Per bug #14876 from Samuel Horwitz. This has been
busted since commit ff1ea2173 allowed views to acquire more columns, so
back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/20171026184035.1471.82810@wrigleys.postgresql.org
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d5b760ecb5e172252810fae877e6d6193b818167

- Dept of second thoughts: keep aliasp_item in sync with tlistitem. Commit
d5b760ecb wasn't quite right, on second thought: if the caller didn't ask for
column names then it would happily emit more Vars than if the caller did ask
for column names. This is surely not a good idea. Advance the aliasp_item
whether or not we're preparing a colnames list.
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d76886c2d33123299ce7c8255a71e39b9e53711b

- Support domains over composite types in PL/Perl. In passing, don't insist on
rsi->expectedDesc being set unless we actually need it; this allows succeeding
in a couple of cases where PL/Perl functions returning setof composite would
have failed before, and makes the error message more apropos in other cases.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4206.1499798337@sss.pgh.pa.us
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/60651e4cddbb77e8f1a0c7fc0be6a7e7bf626fe0

Andrew Dunstan pushed:

- Add a utility function to extract variadic function arguments. This is
epecially useful in the case or "VARIADIC ANY" functions. The caller can get
the artguments and types regardless of whether or not and explicit VARIADIC
array argument has been used. The function also provides an option to convert
arguments on type "unknown" to to "text". Michael Paquier and me, reviewed by
Tom Lane. Backpatch to 9.4 in order to support the following json bug fix.
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f3c6e8a27a8f8436cada9a42e4f57338ed38c785

- Process variadic arguments consistently in json functions. json_build_object
and json_build_array and the jsonb equivalents did not correctly process
explicit VARIADIC arguments. They are modified to use the new
extract_variadic_args() utility function which abstracts away the details of
the call method. Michael Paquier, reviewed by Tom Lane and Dmitry Dolgov.
Backpatch to 9.5 for the jsonb fixes and 9.4 for the json fixes, as that's
where they originated.
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/18fc4ecf4afafe40bd7e7577bd611e5caf74c9fd

- Undo inadvertent change in capitalization in commit 18fc4ec.
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/adee9e4e317169463816d005e8bf901333271917

- Improve gendef.pl diagnostic on failure to open sym file. There have been
numerous buildfarm failures but the diagnostic is currently silent about the
reason for failure to open the file. Let's see if we can get to the bottom of
it. Backpatch to all live branches.
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/74d2c0dbfd94aa5512be3828a793b4c2d43df2d0

Michael Meskes pushed:

- Fixed handling of escape character in libecpg. Patch by Tsunakawa Takayuki
<tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0af98a95cf8397d36202a34cd615f222faf24e9a

Robert Haas pushed:

- In relevant log messages, indicate whether vacuums are aggressive. Kyotaro
Horiguchi, reviewed Masahiko Sawada, David G. Johnston, Álvaro Herrera, and
me. Grammar correction to the final posted patch by me. Discussion:
http://postgr.es/m/20170329.124649.193656100.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b55509332f50f998b6e8b3830a51c5b9d8f666aa

- Fix mistaken failure to allow parallelism in corner case. If we try to run a
parallel plan in serial mode because, for example, it's going to be scanned
via a cursor, but for some reason we're already in parallel mode (for example
because an outer query is running in parallel), we'd incorrectly try to launch
workers. Fix by adding a flag to the EState, so that we can be certain that
ExecutePlan() and ExecGather()/ExecGatherMerge() will have the same idea about
whether we are executing serially or in parallel. Report and fix by Amit
Kapila with help from Kuntal Ghosh. A few tweaks by me. Discussion:
http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+_BuZrmVCeua5Eqnm4Co9DAXdM5HPAOE2J19ePbR912Q@mail.gmail.com
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/639c1a6bb9ee08fe4757a6fab1ddbd01291515e1

- Move new structure member to the end. Reduces ABI breakage. Per Tom Lane.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/4035.1509113974@sss.pgh.pa.us
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/94d622f27be6d48e61a68496da4f2efb06fe8746

- Revert "Move new structure member to the end.". This reverts commit
94d622f27be6d48e61a68496da4f2efb06fe8746. That commit was supposed to get
pushed to REL_10_STABLE, but I messed up.
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f0392e677ed098e9e514ad5e4d5dc148c0474c63

- Allow parallel query for prepared statements with generic plans. This was
always intended to work, but due to an oversight in
max_parallel_hazard_walker, it didn't. In testing, we missed the fact that it
was only working for custom plans, where the parameter value has been
substituted for the parameter itself early enough that everything worked. In
a generic plan, the Param node survives and must be treated as parallel-safe.
SerializeParamList provides for the transmission of parameter values to
workers. Amit Kapila with help from Kuntal Ghosh. Some changes by me.
Discussion:
http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+_BuZrmVCeua5Eqnm4Co9DAXdM5HPAOE2J19ePbR912Q@mail.gmail.com
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/682ce911f8f30de39b13cf211fc8ceb8c6cbc01b

- Fix misplaced ReleaseSysCache call in get_default_partition_oid. Julien
Rouhaud Discussion:
http://postgr.es/m/CAOBaU_Y4omLA+VbsVdA-JwBLoJWiPxfdKCkMjrZM7NMZxa1fKw@mail.gmail.com
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1310ac258c773ab9d41650b509098dd01cb4ecf3

- Fix grammar. Etsuro Fujita Discussion:
http://postgr.es/m/cc7767b6-6a1b-74a2-8b3c-48b8e64c12ed@lab.ntt.co.jp
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/24fd674a1affe1ca9776bd6b21b2b35feb0fe6ed

- Add table_constraint synopsis to ALTER TABLE documentation. This is already
present in the CREATE TABLE documentation, but it's nicer not to have to refer
to CREATE TABLE to find out the syntax for ALTER TABLE. Lætitia Avrot
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9f295c08f8776213ccb592de0c4f094738d6d841

- Improve comments for parallel executor estimation functions. The previous
comment (which was copied as boilerplate from one file to the next) implied
that it was the executor node itself which was being serialized, but that's
not right. We're not serializing the executor nodes; we're just allowing them
to store some additional information in DSM. Adjusts the comment to reflect
this. Discussion:
http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaHVinxG=3h6qBAsyV8xaDyQwbzK7YZnYfE8nJFMK1=FA@mail.gmail.com
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/11c1d555cebe8045a45bc0ee10d0673fad8d4895

- Fix typo. Eiji Seki Discussion:
http://postgr.es/m/A11BD0E1A40FAC479D740CEFA373E203397E5276@g01jpexmbkw05
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c6fd5cd7062283575a436ec4ea3ed7899ace79a0

- Add hash_combine64. Extracted from a larger patch by Amul Sul, with some
comment additions by me. Discussion:
http://postgr.es/m/20171024113004.hn5qajypin4dy5sw@alap3.anarazel.de
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b7f3eb31405f1dbbf086e5a8f88569a6dc85157a

- pg_receivewal: Add --no-sync option. Michael Paquier, reviewed by Kuntal
Ghosh and by me. I did a little wordsmithing on the documentation, too.
Discussion:
http://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqTuXuyEoVKcWcExh_b0uAjgWd_14KfGLrCTccBZ=VA0KA@mail.gmail.com
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5f3971291fc231bb65a38198b1bcb1c29ef63108

- Fix problems with the "role" GUC and parallel query. Without this fix,
dropping a role can sometimes result in parallel query failures in sessions
that have used "SET ROLE" to assume the dropped role, even if that setting
isn't active any more. Report by Pavan Deolasee. Patch by Amit Kapila,
reviewed by me. Discussion:
http://postgr.es/m/CABOikdOomRcZsLsLK+Z+qENM1zxyaWnAvFh3MJZzZnnKiF+REg@mail.gmail.com
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/846fcc85167c417873865099d70068ed85f758a8

== Pending Patches ==

Tom Lane sent in a patch to fix an asymmetry in parse_func.c.

Amit Langote and Tom Lane traded patches to fix an infelicity in
joinaliasvars uncovered by sqlsmith.

Álvaro Herrera sent in two revisions of a patch to fix autovacuum work items.

Amit Khandekar sent in two more revisions of a patch to implement UPDATE of
partition keys in declaratively partitioned tables so that tuples move to the
appropriate partition as needed.

Doug Rady sent in another revision of a patch to pgbench which adds an option to
build using ppoll() for larger connection counts.

Ivan Kartyshov sent in three more revisions of a patch to make async subscribers
to wait for lsn to be replayed.

Amit Langote sent in five more revisions of a patch to prune partitions faster.

Álvaro Herrera sent in two more revisions of a patch to enable indexes on
partitions to be unique.

Thomas Munro sent in two more revisions of a patch to implement parallel hash.

Anthony Bykov sent in a patch to add a JSONB TRANSFORM for PL/Perl.

Simon Riggs sent in a patch to remove the code that maintained two checkpoint's
WAL files and all associated stuff.

Masahiko Sawada sent in another revision of a patch to allow atomic commits on
foreign servers.

Amul Sul sent in two more revisions of a patch to add hash partitioning.

Anthony Bykov sent in a patch to create a JSONB TRANSFORM for PL/Python2U.

Tomas Vondra sent in two revisions of a patch to implement BRIN multi-range
indexes.

Michaël Paquier sent in three revisions of a patch to implement pg_receivewal
--no-sync.

Jing Wang sent in a patch to support unicode host variables in ECPG.

Gao Zengqi (高增琦) sent in a patch to fix an endless loop in ECPG in informix
mode.

Petr Jelínek sent in a patch to prevent resetting additional columns on the
logical subscriber to NULL after UPDATE. When the subscriber's table had extra
columns, this was happening, and was usually the wrong thing.

Rushabh Lathia sent in another revision of a patch to add parallel B-tree index
build sorting.

Masahiko Sawada sent in another revision of a patch to move relation extension
locks out of the heavyweight lock manager.

Michaël Paquier sent in a patch to place the timeline ID in the backup_label
file.

Kyotaro HORIGUCHI sent in another revision of a patch to enable switching WAL
source in the midst of a record.

Etsuro Fujita sent in two more revisions of a patch to add support for tuple
routing to foreign partitions.

Peter Eisentraut sent in a patch to convert ids to upper case at build time.

Yura Sokolov sent in two more revisions of a patch to implement logical decoding
of two-phase transactions.

Lætitia Avrot sent in a patch to add a table_constraint description to the ALTER
TABLE synopsis.

Andrey Borodin sent in two revisions of a patch to add index-only scan for cube
and seg.

Peter Eisentraut sent in another revision of a patch to replace hand-tooled
boolean handling with stdbool.h.

Robert Haas sent in another revision of a patch to enable libpq protocol negotiation.

Jeevan Chalke sent in another revision of a patch to implement partition-wise
aggregation/grouping.

Takayuki Tsunakawa sent in two revisions of a patch to fix a startup crash on
Windows.

Julien Rouhaud sent in a patch to fix unsafe tuple releasing in
get_default_partition_oid.

Pavel Stěhule sent in a patch to enable psql to take sorting arguments for some
of its \ commands.

Chris Travers sent in a patch to restrict pg_rewind to data/wal directories.

Amit Kapila sent in another revision of a patch to make extern params parallel
safe.

Amit Kapila sent in another revision of a patch to fix role handling in parallel
workers.

Nikolay Shaplov sent in a patch to better document some regression tests for
reloptions.

Dmitry Dolgov sent in another revision of a patch to implement generic type
subscripting.