Don't generate plain-text HISTORY and src/test/regress/README anymore.

Providing this information as plain text was doubtless worth the trouble
ten years ago, but it seems likely that hardly anyone reads it in this
format anymore.  And the effort required to maintain these files (in the
form of extra-complex markup rules in the relevant parts of the SGML
documentation) is significant.  So, let's stop doing that and rely solely
on the other documentation formats.

Per discussion, the plain-text INSTALL instructions might still be worth
their keep, so we continue to generate that file.

Rather than remove HISTORY and src/test/regress/README from distribution
tarballs entirely, replace them with simple stub files that tell the reader
where to find the relevant documentation.  This is mainly to avoid possibly
breaking packaging recipes that expect these files to exist.

Back-patch to all supported branches, because simplifying the markup
requirements for release notes won't help much unless we do it in all
branches.
scripts: Remove newlines from end of generated SQL

This results in spurious empty lines in the server log.  Instead, add
the newlines only when printing out the --echo output.  In some cases,
this was already done, leading to two newlines being printed.  Clean
that up as well.

From: Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com>
Cygwin build fixes.

Get rid of use of dlltool for linking the main postgres executable.
dlltool is obsolete and we'd prefer to stop depending on it.

Also, include $(LDAP_LIBS_FE) in $(libpq_pgport).  (It's not clear that
this is really needed, or why it's not a linker bug if it is needed.
But reports are that it's needed on current Cygwin.)

We might want to back-patch this if it works, but first let's see
what the buildfarm thinks.

Marco Atzeri
Get rid of use of dlltool in Mingw builds.

We are almost completely out of the dlltool game, if this works.

Hiroshi Inoue
Flush a stray definition of $(DLLTOOL).

Even if this is needed, it'd be configure's responsibility to set it.
Make gendef.pl emit DATA annotations for global variables.

This should make the MSVC build act more like builds for other platforms,
i.e. backend global variables will be automatically available to loadable
libraries without need for explicit PGDLLIMPORT marking.

Craig Ringer
Tweak position of $(DLL_DEFFILE) in shared-library link commands.

Reading the GNU ld man page suggests that this is order-sensitive
and should go in front of library references.  Correction to commit
846e91e0223cf9f2821c3ad4dfffffbb929cb027.
doc: Postgres date-style date-only output is ISO

Backpatch to 9.3

Report from MauMau
Remove --enable-auto-import linker switch in Cygwin build.

This is expected to make it start failing when contrib modules
reference non-PGDLLIMPORT'ed global variables, as the other Windows
build methods do.  Aside from the value of consistency, the underlying
implementation of this switch is pretty ugly and not really something
we want to rely on if we have to use PGDLLIMPORT anyway for MSVC.
Use --disable-auto-import linker switch in Mingw builds, too.

This is evidently the default on buildfarm member narwhal, but that
is a pretty ancient Mingw version, and there is reason to think that
more recent versions of GNU ld have this feature turned on by default.
Since we are trying to achieve consistency of link behavior across
all Windows toolchains, let's just make sure here.
Kill pg_basebackup background process when exiting

If an error occurs in the foreground (backup) process of pg_basebackup,
and we exit in a controlled way, the background process (streaming
xlog process) would stay around and keep streaming.
Add missing include, required on some platforms

Noted by the buildfarm and Andres Freund
In XLogReadBufferExtended, don't assume P_NEW yields consecutive pages.

In a database that's not yet reached consistency, it's possible that some
segments of a relation are not full-size but are not the last ones either.
Because of the way smgrnblocks() works, asking for a new page with P_NEW
will fill in the last not-full-size segment --- and if that makes it full
size, the apparent EOF of the relation will increase by more than one page,
so that the next P_NEW request will yield a page past the next consecutive
one.  This breaks the relation-extension logic in XLogReadBufferExtended,
possibly allowing a page update to be applied to some page far past where
it was intended to go.  This appears to be the explanation for reports of
table bloat on replication slaves compared to their masters, and probably
explains some corrupted-slave reports as well.

Fix the loop to check the page number it actually got, rather than merely
Assert()'ing that dead reckoning got it to the desired place.  AFAICT,
there are no other places that make assumptions about exactly which page
they'll get from P_NEW.

Problem identified by Greg Stark, though this is not the same as his
proposed patch.

It's been like this for a long time, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
pg_test_fsync: add C comment about direct I/O and write size failure

Report from Marti Raudsepp
pg_upgrade: dramatically reduce memory consumption

Report from Jeff Janes
Rename 'gmake' to 'make' in docs and recommended commands

This simplifies the docs and makes it easier to cut/paste command lines.
Revert gmake/make release note changes

Backbranch release note changes cause merge conflicts.
Improve libpq's error recovery for connection loss during COPY.

In pqSendSome, if the connection is already closed at entry, discard any
queued output data before returning.  There is no possibility of ever
sending the data, and anyway this corresponds to what we'd do if we'd
detected a hard error while trying to send().  This avoids possible
indefinite bloat of the output buffer if the application keeps trying
to send data (or even just keeps trying to do PQputCopyEnd, as psql
indeed will).

Because PQputCopyEnd won't transition out of PGASYNC_COPY_IN state
until it's successfully queued the COPY END message, and pqPutMsgEnd
doesn't distinguish a queuing failure from a pqSendSome failure,
this omission allowed an infinite loop in psql if the connection closure
occurred when we had at least 8K queued to send.  It might be worth
refactoring so that we can make that distinction, but for the moment
the other changes made here seem to offer adequate defenses.

To guard against other variants of this scenario, do not allow
PQgetResult to return a PGRES_COPY_XXX result if the connection is
already known dead.  Make sure it returns PGRES_FATAL_ERROR instead.

Per report from Stephen Frost.  Back-patch to all active branches.
Improve text of stub HISTORY file.

Per Peter Eisentraut.
Improve cross-references between minor version release notes.

We have a practice of providing a "bread crumb" trail between the minor
versions where the migration section actually tells you to do something.
Historically that was just plain text, eg, "see the release notes for
9.2.4"; but if you're using a browser or PDF reader, it's a lot nicer
if it's a live hyperlink.  So use "<xref>" instead.  Any argument against
doing this vanished with the recent decommissioning of plain-text release
notes.

Vik Fearing