Remove bgw_sighup and bgw_sigterm.

Per discussion on pgsql-hackers, these aren't really needed.  Interim
versions of the background worker patch had the worker starting with
signals already unblocked, which would have made this necessary.
But the final version does not, so we don't really need it; and it
doesn't work well with the new facility for starting dynamic background
workers, so just rip it out.

Also per discussion on pgsql-hackers, back-patch this change to 9.3.
It's best to get the API break out of the way before we do an
official release of this facility, to avoid more pain for extension
authors later.
pgrowlocks: Use GetActiveSnapshot() rather than SnapshotNow.

Per discussion, it's desirable to eliminate all remaining uses of
SnapshotNow, because it has unpleasant semantics: race conditions
can result in seeing multiple versions of a concurrently updated
row, or none at all.  By using GetActiveSnapshot() here, callers
will see exactly those rows that would have been visible if the
invoking query had scanned the table using, for example, a SELECT
statement.

This is slightly different from the old behavior, because commits
that happen concurrently with the scan will not affect the results.
In REPEATABLE READ or SERIALIZABLE modes, where transaction
snapshots are used, commits that have happened since the start of
the transaction will also not affect the results.  It is hoped
that this minor incompatibility will be thought an improvement,
or at least no worse than what we did before.
Fix cache flush hazard in ExecRefreshMatView.

Andres Freund
Add --rate option.

This controls the target transaction rate to certain tps, rather than
maximum. Patch contributed by Fabien COELHO, reviewed by Greg Smith,
and slight editing by me.
doc: Remove tab from SGML file
ecpg: Move function prototype into header file

PGTYPEStimestamp_defmt_scan() was declared twice inside different .c
files, with slightly different prototypes.  Move it into a header file
and correct the prototype.
Additional regression tests for ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY.

Robins Tharakan, reviewed by Szymon Guz
Use InvalidSnapshot, now SnapshotNow, as the default snapshot.

As far as I can determine, there's no code in the core distribution
that fails to explicitly set the snapshot of a scan or executor
state.  If there is any such code, this will probably cause it to
seg fault; friendlier suggestions were discussed on pgsql-hackers,
but there was no consensus that anything more than this was
needed.

This is another step towards the hoped-for complete removal of
SnapshotNow.
Tweak FOR UPDATE/SHARE error message wording (again)

In commit 0ac5ad5134 I changed some error messages from "FOR
UPDATE/SHARE" to a rather long gobbledygook which nobody liked.  Then,
in commit cb9b66d31 I changed them again, but the alternative chosen
there was deemed suboptimal by Peter Eisentraut, who in message
1373937980.20441.8.camel@vanquo.pezone.net proposed an alternative
involving a dynamically-constructed string based on the actual locking
strength specified in the SQL command.  This patch implements that
suggestion.
Change post-rewriter representation of dropped columns in joinaliasvars.

It's possible to drop a column from an input table of a JOIN clause in a
view, if that column is nowhere actually referenced in the view.  But it
will still be there in the JOIN clause's joinaliasvars list.  We used to
replace such entries with NULL Const nodes, which is handy for generation
of RowExpr expansion of a whole-row reference to the view.  The trouble
with that is that it can't be distinguished from the situation after
subquery pull-up of a constant subquery output expression below the JOIN.
Instead, replace such joinaliasvars with null pointers (empty expression
trees), which can't be confused with pulled-up expressions.  expandRTE()
still emits the old convention, though, for convenience of RowExpr
generation and to reduce the risk of breaking extension code.

In HEAD and 9.3, this patch also fixes a problem with some new code in
ruleutils.c that was failing to cope with implicitly-casted joinaliasvars
entries, as per recent report from Feike Steenbergen.  That oversight was
because of an inadequate description of the data structure in parsenodes.h,
which I've now corrected.  There were some pre-existing oversights of the
same ilk elsewhere, which I believe are now all fixed.
Check for NULL result from strdup

Per Coverity Scan
Further hacking on ruleutils' new column-alias-assignment code.

After further thought about implicit coercions appearing in a joinaliasvars
list, I realized that they represent an additional reason why we might need
to reference the join output column directly instead of referencing an
underlying column.  Consider SELECT x FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 USING (x) where
t1.x is of type date while t2.x is of type timestamptz.  The merged output
variable is of type timestamptz, but it won't go to null when t2 does,
therefore neither t1.x nor t2.x is a valid substitute reference.

The code in get_variable() actually gets this case right, since it knows
it shouldn't look through a coercion, but we failed to ensure that the
unqualified output column name would be globally unique.  To fix, modify
the code that trawls for a dangerous situation so that it actually scans
through an unnamed join's joinaliasvars list to see if there are any
non-simple-Var entries.
Move strip_implicit_coercions() from optimizer to nodeFuncs.c.

Use of this function has spread into the parser and rewriter, so it seems
like time to pull it out of the optimizer and put it into the more central
nodeFuncs module.  This eliminates the need to #include optimizer/clauses.h
in most of the calling files, demonstrating that this function was indeed a
bit outside the normal code reference patterns.
Fix booltestsel() for case where we have NULL stats but not MCV stats.

In a boolean column that contains mostly nulls, ANALYZE might not find
enough non-null values to populate the most-common-values stats,
but it would still create a pg_statistic entry with stanullfrac set.
The logic in booltestsel() for this situation did the wrong thing for
"col IS NOT TRUE" and "col IS NOT FALSE" tests, forgetting that null
values would satisfy these tests (so that the true selectivity would
be close to one, not close to zero).  Per bug #8274.

Fix by Andrew Gierth, some comment-smithing by me.
pg_upgrade: fix parallel/-j crash on Windows
This fixes the problem of passing the wrong function pointer when doing
parallel copy/link operations on Windows.
Backpatched to 9.3beta.
Found and patch supplied by Andrew Dunstan
pg_upgrade:  more Windows parallel/-j fixes
More fixes to handle Windows thread parameter passing.
Backpatch to 9.3 beta.
Patch originally from Andrew Dunstan
Improve ilist.h's support for deletion of slist elements during iteration.

Previously one had to use slist_delete(), implying an additional scan of
the list, making this infrastructure considerably less efficient than
traditional Lists when deletion of element(s) in a long list is needed.
Modify the slist_foreach_modify() macro to support deleting the current
element in O(1) time, by keeping a "prev" pointer in addition to "cur"
and "next".  Although this makes iteration with this macro a bit slower,
no real harm is done, since in any scenario where you're not going to
delete the current list element you might as well just use slist_foreach
instead.  Improve the comments about when to use each macro.

Back-patch to 9.3 so that we'll have consistent semantics in all branches
that provide ilist.h.  Note this is an ABI break for callers of
slist_foreach_modify().

Andres Freund and Tom Lane
Add GET DIAGNOSTICS ... PG_CONTEXT in PL/PgSQL

This adds the ability to get the call stack as a string from within a
PL/PgSQL function, which can be handy for logging to a table, or to
include in a useful message to an end-user.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia and rather heavily whacked
around by Stephen Frost.