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>Appendix E. Release Notes</H1
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><DT
>E.1. <A
HREF="release.html#RELEASE-7-4-1"
>Release 7.4.1</A
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>E.2. <A
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>Release 7.4</A
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>E.3. <A
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>Release 7.3.5</A
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>Release 7.3.4</A
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>E.5. <A
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>Release 7.3.3</A
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>E.6. <A
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>Release 7.3.2</A
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>E.7. <A
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>Release 7.3.1</A
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>Release 7.2.4</A
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>Release 7.2.3</A
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>E.11. <A
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>Release 7.2.2</A
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>Release 7.2.1</A
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>Release 7.0.1</A
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>Release 7.0</A
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>Release 6.5.3</A
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>Release 6.5.2</A
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>Release 6.3.2</A
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>Release 6.3.1</A
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>Release 6.3</A
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>Release 6.2.1</A
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>Release 6.1.1</A
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>Release 6.1</A
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>Postgres95</SPAN
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>E.1. Release 7.4.1</A
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><BLOCKQUOTE
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><P
><B
>Release date: </B
>2003-12-22</P
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><P
> This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.
</P
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><H2
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><A
NAME="AEN61614"
>E.1.1. Migration to version 7.4.1</A
></H2
><P
> A dump/restore is <SPAN
CLASS="emphasis"
><I
CLASS="EMPHASIS"
>not</I
></SPAN
> required for those
running 7.4.
</P
><P
> If you want to install the fixes in the information schema
you need to reload it into the database.
This is either accomplished by initializing a new cluster
by running <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>initdb</TT
>, or by running the following
sequence of SQL commands in each database (ideally including
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>template1</TT
>) as a superuser in
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>psql</SPAN
>, after installing the new release:
</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE;
\i /usr/local/pgsql/share/information_schema.sql</PRE
><P>
Substitute your installation path in the second command.
</P
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><A
NAME="AEN61623"
>E.1.2. Changes</A
></H2
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></P
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><LI
><P
>Fixed bug in <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE SCHEMA</TT
> parsing in ECPG (Michael)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix compile error when <VAR
CLASS="OPTION"
>--enable-thread-safety</VAR
> and <VAR
CLASS="OPTION"
>--with-perl</VAR
> are used together (Peter)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix for subqueries that used hash joins (Tom)</P
><P
> Certain subqueries that used hash joins would crash because of
improperly shared structures.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix free space map compaction bug (Tom)</P
><P
> This fixes a bug where compaction of the free space map could lead
to a database server shutdown.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix for Borland compiler build of libpq (Bruce)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>netmask()</CODE
> and <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>hostmask()</CODE
> to return the maximum-length masklen (Tom)</P
><P
> Fix these functions to return values consistent with pre-7.4
releases.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Several <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>contrib/pg_autovacuum</TT
> fixes</P
><P
> Fixes include improper variable initialization, missing vacuum after
<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>TRUNCATE</TT
>, and duration computation overflow for long vacuums.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Allow compile of <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>contrib/cube</TT
> under Cygwin (Jason Tishler)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix Solaris use of password file when no passwords are defined (Tom)</P
><P
> Fix crash on Solaris caused by use of any type of password
authentication when no passwords were defined.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>JDBC fix for thread problems, other fixes</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix for <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>bytea</TT
> index lookups (Joe)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix information schema for bit data types (Peter)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Force zero_damaged_pages to be on during recovery from WAL</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Prevent some obscure cases of <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"variable not in subplan target lists"</SPAN
></P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Make <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>PQescapeBytea</CODE
> and <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>byteaout</CODE
> consistent with each other (Joe)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Escape <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>bytea</TT
> output for bytes > 0x7e(Joe)</P
><P
> If different client encodings are used for <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>bytea</TT
> output and input, it
is possible for <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>bytea</TT
> values to be corrupted by the differing
encodings. This fix escapes all bytes that might be affected.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Added missing <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SPI_finish()</CODE
> calls to dblink's <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>get_tuple_of_interest()</CODE
> (Joe)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>New Czech FAQ</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix information schema view <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>constraint_column_usage</TT
> for foreign keys (Peter)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>ECPG fixes (Michael)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix bug with multiple <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>IN</TT
> subqueries and joins in the subqueries (Tom)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Alllow <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>COUNT('x')</TT
> to work (Tom)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Install ECPG include files for Informix compatibility into separate directory (Peter)</P
><P
> Some names of ECPG include files for Informix compatibility conflicted with operating system include files.
By installing them in their own directory, name conflicts have been reduced.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix SSL memory leak (Neil)</P
><P
> This release fixes a bug in 7.4 where SSL didn't free all memory it allocated.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Prevent <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>pg_service.conf</TT
> from using service name as default dbname (Bruce)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix local ident authentication on FreeBSD (Tom)</P
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