<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Release 7.4.11</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 7.4.12" HREF="release-7-4-12.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Release 7.4.10" HREF="release-7-4-10.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-7-4-12.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-7-4-10.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="RELEASE-7-4-11" >E.18. Release 7.4.11</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="NOTE" ><P ><B >Release date: </B >2006-01-09</P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.10. </P ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN69574" >E.18.1. Migration to version 7.4.11</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 the release notes for 7.4.8. Also, you might need to <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >REINDEX</TT > indexes on textual columns after updating, if you are affected by the locale or <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >plperl</SPAN > issues described below. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN69579" >E.18.2. Changes</A ></H2 ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Fix for protocol-level Describe messages issued outside a transaction or in a failed transaction (Tom)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Fix character string comparison for locales that consider different character combinations as equal, such as Hungarian (Tom)</P ><P >This might require <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >REINDEX</TT > to fix existing indexes on textual columns.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Set locale environment variables during postmaster startup to ensure that <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >plperl</SPAN > won't change the locale later</P ><P >This fixes a problem that occurred if the <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >postmaster</SPAN > was started with environment variables specifying a different locale than what <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >initdb</SPAN > had been told. Under these conditions, any use of <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >plperl</SPAN > was likely to lead to corrupt indexes. You may need <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >REINDEX</TT > to fix existing indexes on textual columns if this has happened to you.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Fix longstanding bug in strpos() and regular expression handling in certain rarely used Asian multi-byte character sets (Tatsuo)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Fix bug in <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/contrib/pgcrypto</TT > gen_salt, which caused it not to use all available salt space for MD5 and XDES algorithms (Marko Kreen, Solar Designer)</P ><P >Salts for Blowfish and standard DES are unaffected.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Fix <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/contrib/dblink</TT > to throw an error, rather than crashing, when the number of columns specified is different from what's actually returned by the query (Joe)</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-7-4-12.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-7-4-10.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Release 7.4.12</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 7.4.10</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >