After a pretty considerable test and release cycle, version 1.2.12 of
the Slony-I replication system has been released.

There is a pretty considerable set of changes:

- Fixed problem with DDL SCRIPT parser where C-style comments were
  not being processed properly

- Added stored functions and documentation for adding empty tables
  (notably *partitions*) to replication.  Note these functions
  do no work when not specifically requested.

  CAVEAT:  This functionality may not work as expected on versions
  of PostgreSQL earlier than 8.1.  Mind you, partitioning tends
  to function pretty poorly in earlier versions of PostgreSQL as
  there were substantial enhancements in 8.1 and following versions.

- Added a fairly substantial partitioning test to exercise the
  new stored functions above.

- Backport "listen path" generator function from CVS HEAD (2.0) to
  1.2 branch.

- Fixed a problem with "EXECUTE SCRIPT" (introduced in remote_worker.c
  version 1.124.2.13) where moving the relevant code into a subroutine
  at the end led to losing the "BEGIN; SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL
  SERIALIZABLE;" query that needs to be the first thing run...

- Fixing the archive sequence generations (in log shipping).  All
  non-SYNC events must start the local transaction before creating the
  archive as well, so that the lock on the archive counter table
  serializes archive creation.

- Fixed logging done in local_listener.c - various places, there was
  no '\n' in some cases, which would lead to entries being folded
  together.

- Fix launch_slons.sh - was not stripping quotes from PID file name

- Error handling for "ERROR: could not serialize access due to
  concurrent update"

  If this error is encountered when starting processing of
  sl_archive_counter, then two threads are fighting over access to
  this counter, and at least one has just failed.

  Rather than waiting, we ask to restart the node immediately.

- Fixes to slonik_build_env script - it wasn't properly handling
  cases where there was just 1 table or 1 sequence, and had a
  problem with the -schema option - thanks, Bernd Helmle

- Don't bother building slony_logshipper on Win32 as it doesn't work
  there at this point.

- If slonik connects as other than a superuser, then generate error
  message indicating this to the user.
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