PostgreSQL v7.2b5 Released

Good morning ...

    On the 14th of January, 2002, the PostgreSQL Global Development
Group packaged up and released v7.2b5 (and, hopefully, our last beta) of
our upcoming release.

    Release Candidate 1, baring any major bug reports from Beta5, is
schedualed for packaging and release on Friday, January 18th, with Full
Release a week later if all remains quiet.

    Although primarily a documentation and packaging related release,
there are several fixes for bugs reported in v7.2b4.

    For a complete listing of changes since v7.2b4, as well as the
newest source code, please go to:

        ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/beta

    !!!!WARNING!!!!       !!!!WARNING!!!!      !!!!WARNING!!!!

    Altho we try hard to keep this from happening, due to some
        internal changes, this release *requires* a full
        dump/initdb/reload from previous v7.2 betas ...

    !!!!WARNING!!!!       !!!!WARNING!!!!      !!!!WARNING!!!!

    Bug reports, as always, should be directed to
pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org, and the severity of all bugs reported will
determine whether we move to the release cycle, or do another Beta, so we
encourage as many administrators as possible to test this current release.


Marc G. Fournier
Coordinator, PGDG