<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Release 7.2.6</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 8.0.11 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Release Notes" HREF="release.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Release 7.2.7" HREF="release-7-2-7.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Release 7.2.5" HREF="release-7-2-5.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="2007-02-02T03:57:22"></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" >PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="release-7-2-7.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="release.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Appendix E. Release Notes</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="release.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="release-7-2-5.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="RELEASE-7-2-6" >E.51. Release 7.2.6</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="NOTE" ><P ><B >Release date: </B >2004-10-22</P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.5. </P ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN72923" >E.51.1. Migration to version 7.2.6</A ></H2 ><P > A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.2.X. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN72926" >E.51.2. Changes</A ></H2 ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Repair possible failure to update hint bits on disk</P ><P >Under rare circumstances this oversight could lead to <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"could not access transaction status"</SPAN > failures, which qualifies it as a potential-data-loss bug.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Ensure that hashed outer join does not miss tuples</P ><P >Very large left joins using a hash join plan could fail to output unmatched left-side rows given just the right data distribution.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Disallow running pg_ctl as root</P ><P >This is to guard against any possible security issues.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Avoid using temp files in /tmp in make_oidjoins_check</P ><P >This has been reported as a security issue, though it's hardly worthy of concern since there is no reason for non-developers to use this script anyway.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Update to newer versions of Bison</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-7-2-7.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-7-2-5.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Release 7.2.7</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 7.2.5</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >