Re: PostgreSQL 7.4.2 Now Available ...

Just a quick note to express my thanks.

Great job folks.  Issues I had with 7.3.5 have been fixed (pg_dump and
dependancies) and the upgrade was quick and easy.

Keep up the good work.

Tim.


Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> After several fixes were backpatches to the 7_4_STABLE branch, we have now
> released a 7.4.2.  As the list of Changes since 7.4.2 is quite small, they
> are included in this email:
>
>      * Fix pg_statistics alignment bug that could crash optimizer
>      * Allow non-super users to update pg_settings
>      * Fix several optimizer bugs, most of which led to "variable not
>        found in subplan target lists" errors
>      * Avoid out-of-memory failure during startup of large multiple index
>        scan
>      * Fix multibyte problem that could lead to "out of memory" error
>        during "COPY IN"
>      * Fix problems with "SELECT INTO" / "CREATE TABLE AS" from tables
>        without OIDs
>      * Fix problems with "alter_table" regression test during parallel
>        testing
>      * Fix problems with hitting open file limit, especially on OS X
>        (Tom)
>      * Partial fix for Turkish-locale issues
>      * Make pg_dump set client encoding on restore
>      * Other minor pg_dump fixes
>      * Allow ecpg to again use C keywords as column names (Michael)
>      * Added ecpg WHENEVER NOT_FOUND to SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE (Michael)
>      * Fix ecpg crash for queries calling set-returning functions (Michael)
>      * Various other ecpg fixes (Michael)
>      * Fixes for Borland compiler
>      * Thread build improvements (Bruce)
>      * Various other build fixes
>      * Various JDBC fixes
>
> Unlike most minor versions, this version does require some updates to the
> pg_* system tables.  Full instructions for how to do this are included in
> the full HISTORY file.
>
> As always, this release is available on all our mirrors, viable at:
>
>     http://www.postgresql.org/mirrors-www.html
>
> And, thanks to David Fetter, is also available via BitTorrent at:
>
>     http://bt.postgresql.org
>
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