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== Angewandte Patches ==

Tom Lane committed:

- In pgsql/src/include/Makefile, add missed src/include/foreign
  subdirectory to the set installed into INSTALLDIR/include/server/.
  Itagaki Takahiro

- Stamp HEAD as 8.5devel.

- Remove useless References column for pg_listener catalog
  description.  Per Shigehiro Honda.

- In pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c, fix up pg_dump's
  --binary-upgrade option so that it behaves properly with inherited
  columns and check constraints.  Per my recent trouble report.

- Fix handling of changed-Param signaling for CteScan plan nodes.  We
  were using the "cteParam" as a proxy for the possibility that the
  underlying CTE plan depends on outer-level variables or Params, but
  that doesn't work very well because it sometimes causes calling
  subqueries to be treated as SubPlans when they could be InitPlans.
  This is inefficient and also causes the outright failure exhibited
  in bug #4902.  Instead, leave the cteParam out of it and copy the
  underlying CTE plan's extParams directly.  Per bug #4902 from Marko
  (johto) Tiikkaja.

- In pgsql/src/backend/parser/gram.y, per SQL spec (in particular, the
  grammar in SQL:2008 7.13) we should allow parentheses around the
  <query expression body> that follows a WITH clause, eg with cte(foo)
  as ( values(0) ) ((select foo from cte)); This seems to be just an
  oversight/thinko in gram.y.  Noted while experimenting with bug
  #4902.

Peter Eisentraut committed:

- Regression test for XML mapping functionality.  I wrote this one
  while chasing down some bugs in the closing days of 8.4.  It could
  be useful in the long run.  This area of the code had no test
  coverage at all before.

- Upgrade to Autoconf 2.63.  This upgrades the configure
  infrastructure to the latest Autoconf version.  Some notable news
  are: the workaround for the broken fseeko() test is gone, checking
  for unknown options is now provided by Autoconf itself, and fixes
  for Mac OS X.

- In pgsql/src/bin/psql/describe.c, have \d show child tables that
  inherit from the specified parent.  As per discussion, \d shows only
  the number of child tables, because that could be hundreds, when
  used for partitioning.  \d+ shows the actual list.  Damien Clochard

- Add log_line_prefix placeholder %e to contain the current SQL state.
  Guillaume Smet

== Abgelehnte Patches (bis jetzt) ==

No one was disappointed this week :-)

== Eingesandte Patches ==

Lars Kanis sent in a patch to extend user mappings in pg_ident.conf.

Robert Haas sent in another revision of his generated header file
handling patch.

Jeremy Kerr sent in three revisions of a patch to avoid manual
shift-and-test logic in AllocSetFreeIndex.

Robert Haas sent in a patch to autogenerate headers and bki.

KaiGai Kohei sent in another revision of his SE-PostgreSQL patches.

Hans-Juergen Schoenig sent in a patch to transform a tsvector to table
format.

Petr (PJMODOS) Jelinek sent in another revision of his GRANT ON ALL IN
SCHEMA patch.

Fujii Masao sent in a patch to provide support for multiplexing the
SIGUSR1 signal.

Fujii Masao sent in a patch to provide support for non-blocking
communication between a frontend and a backend.

Zoltan Boszormenyi sent in two revisions of a patch to add a "string"
pseudo-type to ECPG.

Gregory Stark sent in a WIP patch to add a Merge Append node, part of
querying partitioned tables more efficiently.

Jeff Davis sent in a WIP patch to allow generalized UNIQUE constraints
such as "doesn't overlap."

Dimitri Fontaine sent in a patch to allow people to run
process_local_preload_libraries from within a transaction.