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Tom Lane d369ddd9f1 Disallow SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE on sequences.
We can't allow this because such an operation stores its transaction XID
into the sequence tuple's xmax.  Because VACUUM doesn't process sequences
(and we don't want it to start doing so), such an xmax value won't get
frozen, meaning it will eventually refer to nonexistent pg_clog storage,
and even wrap around completely.  Since the row lock is ignored by nextval
and setval, the usefulness of the operation is highly debatable anyway.
Per reports of trouble with pgpool 3.0, which had ill-advisedly started
using such commands as a form of locking.

In HEAD, also disallow SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE on toast tables.  Although
this does work safely given the current implementation, there seems no
good reason to allow it.  I refrained from changing that behavior in
back branches, however.
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================
  
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces including some of the more
common listed below:

C++ - http://pqxx.org/development/libpqxx/
JDBC - http://jdbc.postgresql.org
ODBC - http://odbc.postgresql.org
Perl - http://search.cpan.org/~dbdpg/
PHP - http://www.php.net
Python - http://www.initd.org/
Ruby - http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/

Other language binding are available from a variety of contributing
parties.

PostgreSQL also has a great number of procedural languages available,
a short, incomplete list is below:

PL/pgSQL - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/Perl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/PHP - http://projects.commandprompt.com/projects/public/plphp
PL/Python - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/Java - http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pljava/
PL/Tcl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the
file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.