<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Release 7.4.10</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 9.1.15 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Release Notes" HREF="release.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Release 7.4.11" HREF="release-7-4-11.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Release 7.4.9" HREF="release-7-4-9.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2015-02-07T09:47:53"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" >PostgreSQL 9.1.15 Documentation</A ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="Release 7.4.11" HREF="release-7-4-11.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="release.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Appendix E. Release Notes</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="Release 7.4.9" HREF="release-7-4-9.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="RELEASE-7-4-10" >E.179. Release 7.4.10</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="NOTE" ><P ><B >Release Date: </B >2005-12-12</P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.9. For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see <A HREF="release-7-4.html" >Section E.189</A >. </P ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN130973" >E.179.1. Migration to Version 7.4.10</A ></H2 ><P > A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X. However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.8, see <A HREF="release-7-4-8.html" >Section E.181</A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN130977" >E.179.2. Changes</A ></H2 ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Fix race condition in transaction log management</P ><P >There was a narrow window in which an I/O operation could be initiated for the wrong page, leading to an Assert failure or data corruption.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Prevent failure if client sends Bind protocol message when current transaction is already aborted</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/contrib/ltree</TT > fixes (Teodor)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >AIX and HPUX compile fixes (Tom)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Fix longstanding planning error for outer joins</P ><P >This bug sometimes caused a bogus error <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"RIGHT JOIN is only supported with merge-joinable join conditions"</SPAN >.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Prevent core dump in <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >pg_autovacuum</SPAN > when a table has been dropped</P ></LI ></UL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="release-7-4-11.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="release-7-4-9.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Release 7.4.11</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="release.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Release 7.4.9</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >