#340052 by justinrandell: Speed up SimpleTest by 15,000 orders of magnitude by pre-loading the registry.

  #340568 by Damien Tournoud: in some versions of SQLite, SELECT DISINCT(field) will return '(field)' as the field name.

  #340500 by justinrandell: Fix silliness in install.inc that was loading the db system twice for no apparent reason.

  #337794 by Damien Tournoud: Make SimpleTest work under PosthreSQL again.

  #338184 by Damien Tournoud: Remove special workarounds for serialize() in the registry.

I have a site which implements custom_url_rewrite_inbound(). I noticed this function was being called an obscene amount of times for many requests, when what I expected was for it to be called only once per request.

It turns out that drupal_get_normal_path calls custom_url_rewrite_inbound, and the latter is called with every request to drupal_is_front_page. Frankly, I'm not convinced these calls to drupal_is_front_page need to call drupal_get_normal_path, but the code is there so someone probably had a reason.

At any rate, the attached patch caches the front page path, so calls to drupal_get_normal_path and custom_url_rewrite_inbound only happen the first time drupal_is_front_page is called. With this patch applied, custom_url_rewrite_inbound() is called twice per request. Once when it is actually needed, to rewrite the incoming request. And a second time to rewrite the front page path, which as I said earlier I'm not convinced is actually necessary or good.

  - Patch #337820 by Dave Reid, Damien Tournoud, et al: rename menu path 'logout' to 'user/logout'.  For real now.

  - Patch #337926 by hswong3i, Dave Reid, Damien Tournoud: forced connection with PDF:CASE_LOWER.

This is really sort of a bug in PHP as discussed here. In the discussion a suggestion is done to always do a chmod after using move_uploaded_file(). In Drupal this advice however is ignored, causing permission problems when files are uploaded with the faulty versions of PHP. The moved files get permission 600 and become therefore unreadable except for Apache. I suggest chmod 644 is added in the code.

  - Patch #281131 by Damien Tournoud: document the missing quote in .htaccess.

  - Patch #281131 by Damien Tournoud: document the missing quote in .htaccess.

  - Patch #339960 by Damien Tournoud: updated test explanation.

  - Patch #337926 by hswong3i: by default, force lower-case database tables/columns.

  - Patch #248205 by Damien Tournoud: up requirement for PostgreSQL to PostgreSQL 8.3.

I had a few nodes that were all written in Dutch. Pathauto had made aliases for those nodes, but only for one of them the alias was actually being used. The problem was that only one of those aliases was to be used for all languages, while the rest was for English only (A little remnant from the early stages of development when I had set English to be the default language and Dutch was only secondary, not English has been disabled completely). The admin panel at /admin/build/path told me all aliases were to be used for all languages, while a quick peek in phpMyAdmin showed that most aliases were indeed to be used for English only. This is a Drupal problem, since Drupal didn't correctly display the values saved in the DB.

In other words: Drupal doesn't accurately indicate for what languages existing aliases are to be used at /admin/build/path.

  #338239 follow-up by c960657: Fix file test failure.

  Reverting #337820 once more, as it causes mysterious test failures.

  - Patch #314870 by drewish: removed some code that accidentically got committed with api.php and that broke the tests.

  - Patch #325908 by kbahey: removed redundant cache flusing.

  - Patch #325908 by kbahey: removed redundant cache flusing.