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Release Notes
Release 7.3.8
Release date: 2004-10-22
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.3.7.
_________________________________________________________________
Migration to version 7.3.8
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X.
_________________________________________________________________
Changes
* Repair possible failure to update hint bits on disk
Under rare circumstances this oversight could lead to "could not
access transaction status" failures, which qualifies it as a
potential-data-loss bug.
* Ensure that hashed outer join does not miss tuples
Very large left joins using a hash join plan could fail to output
unmatched left-side rows given just the right data distribution.
* Disallow running pg_ctl as root
This is to guard against any possible security issues.
* Avoid using temp files in /tmp in make_oidjoins_check
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.
_________________________________________________________________
Release 7.3.7
Release date: 2004-08-16
This release contains one critical fix over 7.3.6, and some minor
items.
_________________________________________________________________
Migration to version 7.3.7
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X.
_________________________________________________________________
Changes
* Prevent possible loss of committed transactions during crash
Due to insufficient interlocking between transaction commit and
checkpointing, it was possible for transactions committed just
before the most recent checkpoint to be lost, in whole or in part,
following a database crash and restart. This is a serious bug that
has existed since PostgreSQL 7.1.
* Remove asymmetrical word processing in tsearch (Teodor)
* Properly schema-qualify function names when pg_dump'ing a CAST
_________________________________________________________________
Release 7.3.6
Release date: 2004-03-02
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.3.5.
_________________________________________________________________
Migration to version 7.3.6
A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.3.*.
_________________________________________________________________
Changes
* Revert erroneous changes in rule permissions checking
A patch applied in 7.3.3 to fix a corner case in rule permissions
checks turns out to have disabled rule-related permissions checks
in many not-so-corner cases. This would for example allow users to
insert into views they weren't supposed to have permission to
insert into. We have therefore reverted the 7.3.3 patch. The
original bug will be fixed in 7.5.
* Repair incorrect order of operations in GetNewTransactionId()
This bug could result in failure under out-of-disk-space
conditions, including inability to restart even after disk space
is freed.
* Ensure configure selects -fno-strict-aliasing even when an
external value for CFLAGS is supplied
On some platforms, building with -fstrict-aliasing causes bugs.
* Make pg_restore handle 64-bit off_t correctly
This bug prevented proper restoration from archive files exceeding
4Gb.
* Make contrib/dblink not assume that local and remote type OIDs
match (Joe)
* Quote connectby()'s start_with argument properly (Joe)
* Don't crash when a rowtype argument to a plpgsql function is NULL
* Avoid generating invalid character encoding sequences in corner
cases when planning LIKE operations
* Ensure text_position() cannot scan past end of source string in
multibyte cases (Korea PostgreSQL Users' Group)
* Fix index optimization and selectivity estimates for LIKE
operations on bytea columns (Joe)
_________________________________________________________________
Release 7.3.5
Release date: 2003-12-03
This has a variety of fixes from 7.3.4.
_________________________________________________________________
Migration to version 7.3.5
A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.3.*.
_________________________________________________________________
Changes
* Force zero_damaged_pages to be on during recovery from WAL
* Prevent some obscure cases of "variable not in subplan target
lists"
* Force stats processes to detach from shared memory, ensuring
cleaner shutdown
* Make PQescapeBytea and byteaout consistent with each other (Joe)
* Added missing SPI_finish() calls to get_tuple_of_interest() (Joe)
* Fix for possible foreign key violation when rule rewrites INSERT
(Jan)
* Support qualified type names in PL/Tcl's spi_prepare command (Jan)
* Make pg_dump handle a procedural language handler located in
pg_catalog
* Make pg_dump handle cases where a custom opclass is in another
schema
* Make pg_dump dump binary-compatible casts correctly (Jan)
* Fix insertion of expressions containing subqueries into rule
bodies
* Fix incorrect argument processing in clusterdb script (Anand
Ranganathan)
* Fix problems with dropped columns in plpython triggers
* Repair problems with to_char() reading past end of its input
string (Karel)
* Fix GB18030 mapping errors (Tatsuo)
* Fix several problems with SSL error handling and asynchronous SSL
I/O
* Remove ability to bind a list of values to a single parameter in
JDBC (prevents possible SQL-injection attacks)
* Fix some errors in HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP code paths
* Fix corner case for btree search in parallel with first root page
split
_________________________________________________________________
Release 7.3.4
Release date: 2003-07-24
This has a variety of fixes from 7.3.3.
_________________________________________________________________
Migration to version 7.3.4
A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.3.*.
_________________________________________________________________
Changes
Repair breakage in timestamp-to-date conversion for dates before 2000
Prevent rare possibility of server startup failure (Tom)
Fix bugs in interval-to-time conversion (Tom)
Add constraint names in a few places in pg_dump (Rod)
Improve performance of functions with many parameters (Tom)
Fix to_ascii() buffer overruns (Tom)
Prevent restore of database comments from throwing an error (Tom)
Work around buggy strxfrm() present in some Solaris releases (Tom)
Properly escape jdbc setObject() strings to improve security (Barry)
_________________________________________________________________
Release 7.3.3
Release date: 2003-05-22
This has a variety of fixes from 7.3.2.
_________________________________________________________________
Migration to version 7.3.3
A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.3.*.
_________________________________________________________________
Changes
Repair sometimes-incorrect computation of StartUpID after a crash
Avoid slowness with lots of deferred triggers in one transaction (Stephan)
Don't lock referenced row when UPDATE doesn't change foreign key's value
(Jan)
Use -fPIC not -fpic on Sparc (Tom Callaway)
Repair lack of schema-awareness in contrib/reindexdb
Fix contrib/intarray error for zero-element result array (Teodor)
Ensure createuser script will exit on control-C (Oliver)
Fix errors when the type of a dropped column has itself been dropped
CHECKPOINT does not cause database panic on failure in noncritical steps
Accept 60 in seconds fields of timestamp, time, interval input values
Issue notice, not error, if TIMESTAMP, TIME, or INTERVAL precision too
large
Fix abstime-to-time cast function (fix is not applied unless you initdb)
Fix pg_proc entry for timestamptz_izone (fix is not applied unless you
initdb)
Make EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM timestamp without time zone) treat input as
local time
'now'::timestamptz gave wrong answer if timezone changed earlier in
transaction
HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP code for time with timezone overwrote its input
Accept GLOBAL TEMP/TEMPORARY as a synonym for TEMPORARY
Avoid improper schema-permissions-check failure in foreign-key triggers
Fix bugs in foreign-key triggers for SET DEFAULT action
Fix incorrect time-qual check in row fetch for UPDATE and DELETE triggers
Foreign-key clauses were parsed but ignored in ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN
Fix createlang script breakage for case where handler function already
exists
Fix misbehavior on zero-column tables in pg_dump, COPY, ANALYZE, other
places
Fix misbehavior of func_error() on type names containing '%'
Fix misbehavior of replace() on strings containing '%'
Regular-expression patterns containing certain multibyte characters failed
Account correctly for NULLs in more cases in join size estimation
Avoid conflict with system definition of isblank() function or macro
Fix failure to convert large code point values in EUC_TW conversions
(Tatsuo)
Fix error recovery for SSL_read/SSL_write calls
Don't do early constant-folding of type coercion expressions
Validate page header fields immediately after reading in any page
Repair incorrect check for ungrouped variables in unnamed joins
Fix buffer overrun in to_ascii (Guido Notari)
contrib/ltree fixes (Teodor)
Fix core dump in deadlock detection on machines where char is unsigned
Avoid running out of buffers in many-way indexscan (bug introduced in 7.3)
Fix planner's selectivity estimation functions to handle domains properly
Fix dbmirror memory-allocation bug (Steven Singer)
Prevent infinite loop in ln(numeric) due to roundoff error.
GROUP BY got confused if there were multiple equal GROUP BY items
Fix bad plan when inherited UPDATE/DELETE references another inherited
table
Prevent clustering on incomplete (partial or non-NULL-storing) indexes
Service shutdown request at proper time if it arrives while still
starting up
Fix left-links in temporary indexes (could make backwards scans miss
entries)
Fix incorrect handling of client_encoding setting in postgresql.conf
(Tatsuo)
Fix failure to respond to 'pg_ctl stop -m fast' after Async_NotifyHandler
runs
Fix SPI for case where rule contains multiple statements of the same type
Fix problem with checking for wrong type of access permission in rule query
Fix problem with EXCEPT in CREATE RULE
Prevent problem with dropping temp tables having serial columns
Fix replace_vars_with_subplan_refs failure in complex views
Fix regexp slowness in single-byte encodings (Tatsuo)
Allow qualified type names in CREATE CAST and DROP CAST
Accept 'SETOF type[]', which formerly had to be written 'SETOF _type'
Fix pg_dump core dump in some cases with procedural languages
Force ISO datestyle in pg_dump output, for portability (Oliver)
pg_dump failed to handle error return from lo_read (Oleg Drokin)
pg_dumpall failed with groups having no members (Nick Eskelinen)
pg_dumpall failed to recognize --globals-only switch
pg_restore failed to restore blobs if -X disable-triggers is specified
Repair intrafunction memory leak in plpgsql
pltcl's elog command dumped core if given wrong parameters (Ian Harding)
plpython used wrong value of atttypmod (Brad McLean)
Fix improper quoting of boolean values in Python interface (D'Arcy)
Added addDataType() method to PGConnection interface for JDBC
Fixed various problems with updateable ResultSets for JDBC (Shawn Green)
Fixed various problems with DatabaseMetaData for JDBC (Kris Jurka,
Peter Royal)
Fixed problem with parsing table ACLs in JDBC
Better error message for character set conversion problems in JDBC
_________________________________________________________________
Release 7.3.2
Release date: 2003-02-04
This has a variety of fixes from 7.3.1.
_________________________________________________________________
Migration to version 7.3.2
A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.3.*.
_________________________________________________________________
Changes
Restore creation of OID column in CREATE TABLE AS / SELECT INTO
Fix pg_dump core dump when dumping views having comments
Dump DEFERRABLE/INITIALLY DEFERRED constraints properly
Fix UPDATE when child table's column numbering differs from parent
Increase default value of max_fsm_relations
Fix problem when fetching backwards in a cursor for a single-row query
Make backward fetch work properly with cursor on SELECT DISTINCT query
Fix problems with loading pg_dump files containing contrib/lo usage
Fix problem with all-numeric user names
Fix possible memory leak and core dump during disconnect in libpgtcl
Make plpython's spi_execute command handle nulls properly (Andrew Bosma)
Adjust plpython error reporting so that its regression test passes again
Work with bison 1.875
Handle mixed-case names properly in plpgsql's %type (Neil)
Fix core dump in pltcl when executing a query rewritten by a rule
Repair array subscript overruns (per report from Yichen Xie)
Reduce MAX_TIME_PRECISION from 13 to 10 in floating-point case
Correctly case-fold variable names in per-database and per-user settings
Fix coredump in plpgsql's RETURN NEXT when SELECT into record returns
no rows
Fix outdated use of pg_type.typprtlen in python client interface
Correctly handle fractional seconds in timestamps in JDBC driver
Improve performance of getImportedKeys() in JDBC
Make shared-library symlinks work standardly on HPUX (Giles)
Repair inconsistent rounding behavior for timestamp, time, interval
SSL negotiation fixes (Nathan Mueller)
Make libpq's ~/.pgpass feature work when connecting with PQconnectDB
Update my2pg, ora2pg
Translation updates
Add casts between types lo and oid in contrib/lo
fastpath code now checks for privilege to call function
_________________________________________________________________
Release 7.3.1
Release date: 2002-12-18
This has a variety of fixes from 7.3.
_________________________________________________________________
Migration to version 7.3.1
A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.3. However, it
should be noted that the main PostgreSQL interface library, libpq, has
a new major version number for this release, which may require
recompilation of client code in certain cases.
_________________________________________________________________
Changes
Fix a core dump of COPY TO when client/server encodings don't match (Tom)
Allow pg_dump to work with pre-7.2 servers (Philip)
/contrib/adddepend fixes (Tom)
Fix problem with deletion of per-user/per-database config settings (Tom)
/contrib/vacuumlo fix (Tom)
Allow 'password' encryption even when pg_shadow contains MD5 passwords
(Bruce)
/contrib/dbmirror fix (Steven Singer)
Optimizer fixes (Tom)
/contrib/tsearch fixes (Teodor Sigaev, Magnus)
Allow locale names to be mixed case (Nicolai Tufar)
Increment libpq library's major version number (Bruce)
pg_hba.conf error reporting fixes (Bruce, Neil)
Add SCO Openserver 5.0.4 as a supported platform (Bruce)
Prevent EXPLAIN from crashing server (Tom)
SSL fixes (Nathan Mueller)
Prevent composite column creation via ALTER TABLE (Tom)
_________________________________________________________________
Release 7.3
Release date: 2002-11-27
_________________________________________________________________
Overview
Major changes in this release:
Schemas
Schemas allow users to create objects in separate namespaces,
so two people or applications can have tables with the same
name. There is also a public schema for shared tables.
Table/index creation can be restricted by removing permissions
on the public schema.
Drop Column
PostgreSQL now supports the ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN
functionality.
Table Functions
Functions returning multiple rows and/or multiple columns are
now much easier to use than before. You can call such a "table
function" in the SELECT FROM clause, treating its output like a
table. Also, PL/pgSQL functions can now return sets.
Prepared Queries
PostgreSQL now supports prepared queries, for improved
performance.
Dependency Tracking
PostgreSQL now records object dependencies, which allows
improvements in many areas. "DROP" statements now take either
CASCADE or RESTRICT to control whether dependent objects are
also dropped.
Privileges
Functions and procedural languages now have privileges, and
functions can be defined to run with the privileges of their
creator.
Internationalization
Both multibyte and locale support are now always enabled.
Logging
A variety of logging options have been enhanced.
Interfaces
A large number of interfaces have been moved to
http://gborg.postgresql.org where they can be developed and
released independently.
Functions/Identifiers
By default, functions can now take up to 32 parameters, and
identifiers can be up to 63 bytes long. Also, OPAQUE is now
deprecated: there are specific "pseudo-datatypes" to represent
each of the former meanings of OPAQUE in function argument and
result types.
_________________________________________________________________
Migration to version 7.3
A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate
data from any previous release. If your application examines the
system catalogs, additional changes will be required due to the
introduction of schemas in 7.3; for more information, see:
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/momjian/upgrade_tips_7.3.
Observe the following incompatibilities:
* Pre-6.3 clients are no longer supported.
* "pg_hba.conf" now has a column for the user name and additional
features. Existing files need to be adjusted.
* Several "postgresql.conf" logging parameters have been renamed.
* LIMIT #,# has been disabled; use LIMIT # OFFSET #.
* "INSERT" statements with column lists must specify a value for
each specified column. For example, INSERT INTO tab (col1, col2)
VALUES ('val1') is now invalid. It's still allowed to supply fewer
columns than expected if the "INSERT" does not have a column list.
* serial columns are no longer automatically UNIQUE; thus, an index
will not automatically be created.
* A "SET" command inside an aborted transaction is now rolled back.
* "COPY" no longer considers missing trailing columns to be null.
All columns need to be specified. (However, one may achieve a
similar effect by specifying a column list in the "COPY" command.)
* The data type timestamp is now equivalent to timestamp without
time zone, instead of timestamp with time zone.
* Pre-7.3 databases loaded into 7.3 will not have the new object
dependencies for serial columns, unique constraints, and foreign
keys. See the directory "contrib/adddepend/" for a detailed
description and a script that will add such dependencies.
* An empty string ('') is no longer allowed as the input into an
integer field. Formerly, it was silently interpreted as 0.
_________________________________________________________________
Changes
Server Operation
Add pg_locks view to show locks (Neil)
Security fixes for password negotiation memory allocation (Neil)
Remove support for version 0 FE/BE protocol (PostgreSQL 6.2 and
earlier) (Tom)
Reserve the last few backend slots for superusers, add parameter
superuser_reserved_connections to control this (Nigel J. Andrews)
_________________________________________________________________
Performance
Improve startup by calling localtime() only once (Tom)
Cache system catalog information in flat files for faster startup
(Tom)
Improve caching of index information (Tom)
Optimizer improvements (Tom, Fernando Nasser)
Catalog caches now store failed lookups (Tom)
Hash function improvements (Neil)
Improve performance of query tokenization and network handling (Peter)
Speed improvement for large object restore (Mario Weilguni)
Mark expired index entries on first lookup, saving later heap fetches
(Tom)
Avoid excessive NULL bitmap padding (Manfred Koizar)
Add BSD-licensed qsort() for Solaris, for performance (Bruce)
Reduce per-row overhead by four bytes (Manfred Koizar)
Fix GEQO optimizer bug (Neil Conway)
Make WITHOUT OID actually save four bytes per row (Manfred Koizar)
Add default_statistics_target variable to specify ANALYZE buckets
(Neil)
Use local buffer cache for temporary tables so no WAL overhead (Tom)
Improve free space map performance on large tables (Stephen Marshall,
Tom)
Improved WAL write concurrency (Tom)
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Privileges
Add privileges on functions and procedural languages (Peter)
Add OWNER to CREATE DATABASE so superusers can create databases
on behalf of unprivileged users. (Gavin Sherry, Tom)
Add new object permission bits EXECUTE and USAGE (Tom)
Add SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION DEFAULT and RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION
(Tom)
Allow functions to be executed with the privilege of the function
owner (Peter)
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Server Configuration
Server log messages now tagged with LOG, not DEBUG (Bruce)
Add user column to pg_hba.conf (Bruce)
Have log_connections output two lines in log file (Tom)
Remove debug_level from postgresql.conf, now server_min_messages
(Bruce)
New ALTER DATABASE/USER ... SET command for per-user/database
initialization (Peter)
New parameters server_min_messages and client_min_messages to
control which messages are sent to the server logs or client
applications (Bruce)
Allow pg_hba.conf to specify lists of users/databases separated by
commas, group names prepended with +, and file names prepended
with @ (Bruce)
Remove secondary password file capability and pg_password utility
(Bruce)
Add variable db_user_namespace for database-local user names (Bruce)
SSL improvements (Bear Giles)
Make encryption of stored passwords the default (Bruce)
Allow pg_statistics to be reset by calling pg_stat_reset()
(Christopher)
Add log_duration parameter (Bruce)
Rename debug_print_query to log_statement (Bruce)
Rename show_query_stats to show_statement_stats (Bruce)
Add param log_min_error_statement to print commands to logs on error
(Gavin)
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Queries
Make cursors insensitive, meaning their contents do not change (Tom)
Disable LIMIT #,# syntax; now only LIMIT # OFFSET # supported (Bruce)
Increase identifier length to 63 (Neil, Bruce)
UNION fixes for merging >= 3 columns of different lengths (Tom)
Add DEFAULT keyword to INSERT, e.g., INSERT ... (..., DEFAULT, ...)
(Rod)
Allow views to have default values using ALTER COLUMN ... SET DEFAULT
(Neil)
Fail on INSERTs with column lists that don't supply all column
values, e.g., INSERT INTO tab (col1, col2) VALUES ('val1'); (Rod)
Fix for join aliases (Tom)
Fix for FULL OUTER JOINs (Tom)
Improve reporting of invalid identifier and location (Tom, Gavin)
Fix OPEN cursor(args) (Tom)
Allow 'ctid' to be used in a view and currtid(viewname) (Hiroshi)
Fix for CREATE TABLE AS with UNION (Tom)
SQL99 syntax improvements (Thomas)
Add statement_timeout variable to cancel queries (Bruce)
Allow prepared queries with PREPARE/EXECUTE (Neil)
Allow FOR UPDATE to appear after LIMIT/OFFSET (Bruce)
Add variable autocommit (Tom, David Van Wie)
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Object Manipulation
Make equals signs optional in CREATE DATABASE (Gavin Sherry)
Make ALTER TABLE OWNER change index ownership too (Neil)
New ALTER TABLE tabname ALTER COLUMN colname SET STORAGE controls
TOAST storage, compression (John Gray)
Add schema support, CREATE/DROP SCHEMA (Tom)
Create schema for temporary tables (Tom)
Add variable search_path for schema search (Tom)
Add ALTER TABLE SET/DROP NOT NULL (Christopher)
New CREATE FUNCTION volatility levels (Tom)
Make rule names unique only per table (Tom)
Add 'ON tablename' clause to DROP RULE and COMMENT ON RULE (Tom)
Add ALTER TRIGGER RENAME (Joe)
New current_schema() and current_schemas() inquiry functions (Tom)
Allow functions to return multiple rows (table functions) (Joe)
Make WITH optional in CREATE DATABASE, for consistency (Bruce)
Add object dependency tracking (Rod, Tom)
Add RESTRICT/CASCADE to DROP commands (Rod)
Add ALTER TABLE DROP for non-CHECK CONSTRAINT (Rod)
Autodestroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL (Rod)
Prevent column dropping if column is used by foreign key (Rod)
Automatically drop constraints/functions when object is dropped (Rod)
Add CREATE/DROP OPERATOR CLASS (Bill Studenmund, Tom)
Add ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN (Christopher, Tom, Hiroshi)
Prevent inherited columns from being removed or renamed (Alvaro
Herrera)
Fix foreign key constraints to not error on intermediate database
states (Stephan)
Propagate column or table renaming to foreign key constraints
Add CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW (Gavin, Neil, Tom)
Add CREATE OR REPLACE RULE (Gavin, Neil, Tom)
Have rules execute alphabetically, returning more predictable values
(Tom)
Triggers are now fired in alphabetical order (Tom)
Add /contrib/adddepend to handle pre-7.3 object dependencies (Rod)
Allow better casting when inserting/updating values (Tom)
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Utility Commands
Have COPY TO output embedded carriage returns and newlines as \r and
\n (Tom)
Allow DELIMITER in COPY FROM to be 8-bit clean (Tatsuo)
Make pg_dump use ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY, for performance (Neil)
Disable brackets in multistatement rules (Bruce)
Disable VACUUM from being called inside a function (Bruce)
Allow dropdb and other scripts to use identifiers with spaces (Bruce)
Restrict database comment changes to the current database
Allow comments on operators, independent of the underlying function
(Rod)
Rollback SET commands in aborted transactions (Tom)
EXPLAIN now outputs as a query (Tom)
Display condition expressions and sort keys in EXPLAIN (Tom)
Add 'SET LOCAL var = value' to set configuration variables for a
single transaction (Tom)
Allow ANALYZE to run in a transaction (Bruce)
Improve COPY syntax using new WITH clauses, keep backward
compatibility (Bruce)
Fix pg_dump to consistently output tags in non-ASCII dumps (Bruce)
Make foreign key constraints clearer in dump file (Rod)
Add COMMENT ON CONSTRAINT (Rod)
Allow COPY TO/FROM to specify column names (Brent Verner)
Dump UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY contraints as ALTER TABLE (Rod)
Have SHOW output a query result (Joe)
Generate failure on short COPY lines rather than pad NULLs (Neil)
Fix CLUSTER to preserve all table attributes (Alvaro Herrera)
New pg_settings table to view/modify GUC settings (Joe)
Add smart quoting, portability improvements to pg_dump output (Peter)
Dump serial columns out as SERIAL (Tom)
Enable large file support, >2G for pg_dump (Peter, Philip Warner,
Bruce)
Disallow TRUNCATE on tables that are involved in referential
constraints (Rod)
Have TRUNCATE also auto-truncate the toast table of the relation (Tom)
Add clusterdb utility that will auto-cluster an entire database
based on previous CLUSTER operations (Alvaro Herrera)
Overhaul pg_dumpall (Peter)
Allow REINDEX of TOAST tables (Tom)
Implemented START TRANSACTION, per SQL99 (Neil)
Fix rare index corruption when a page split affects bulk delete (Tom)
Fix ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN for inheritance (Alvaro Herrera)
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Data Types and Functions
Fix factorial(0) to return 1 (Bruce)
Date/time/timezone improvements (Thomas)
Fix for array slice extraction (Tom)
Fix extract/date_part to report proper microseconds for timestamp
(Tatsuo)
Allow text_substr() and bytea_substr() to read TOAST values more
efficiently (John Gray)
Add domain support (Rod)
Make WITHOUT TIME ZONE the default for TIMESTAMP and TIME data types
(Thomas)
Allow alternate storage scheme of 64-bit integers for date/time types
using --enable-integer-datetimes in configure (Thomas)
Make timezone(timestamptz) return timestamp rather than a string
(Thomas)
Allow fractional seconds in date/time types for dates prior to 1BC
(Thomas)
Limit timestamp data types to 6 decimal places of precision (Thomas)
Change timezone conversion functions from timetz() to timezone()
(Thomas)
Add configuration variables datestyle and timezone (Tom)
Add OVERLAY(), which allows substitution of a substring in a string
(Thomas)
Add SIMILAR TO (Thomas, Tom)
Add regular expression SUBSTRING(string FROM pat FOR escape) (Thomas)
Add LOCALTIME and LOCALTIMESTAMP functions (Thomas)
Add named composite types using CREATE TYPE typename AS (column)
(Joe)
Allow composite type definition in the table alias clause (Joe)
Add new API to simplify creation of C language table functions (Joe)
Remove ODBC-compatible empty parentheses from calls to SQL99
functions for which these parentheses do not match the standard
(Thomas)
Allow macaddr data type to accept 12 hex digits with no separators
(Mike Wyer)
Add CREATE/DROP CAST (Peter)
Add IS DISTINCT FROM operator (Thomas)
Add SQL99 TREAT() function, synonym for CAST() (Thomas)
Add pg_backend_pid() to output backend pid (Bruce)
Add IS OF / IS NOT OF type predicate (Thomas)
Allow bit string constants without fully-specified length (Thomas)
Allow conversion between 8-byte integers and bit strings (Thomas)
Implement hex literal conversion to bit string literal (Thomas)
Allow table functions to appear in the FROM clause (Joe)
Increase maximum number of function parameters to 32 (Bruce)
No longer automatically create index for SERIAL column (Tom)
Add current_database() (Rod)
Fix cash_words() to not overflow buffer (Tom)
Add functions replace(), split_part(), to_hex() (Joe)
Fix LIKE for bytea as a right-hand argument (Joe)
Prevent crashes caused by SELECT cash_out(2) (Tom)
Fix to_char(1,'FM999.99') to return a period (Karel)
Fix trigger/type/language functions returning OPAQUE to return
proper type (Tom)
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Internationalization
Add additional encodings: Korean (JOHAB), Thai (WIN874), Vietnamese
(TCVN), Arabic (WIN1256), Simplified Chinese (GBK), Korean (UHC)
(Eiji Tokuya)
Enable locale support by default (Peter)
Add locale variables (Peter)
Escape byes >= 0x7f for multibyte in PQescapeBytea/PQunescapeBytea
(Tatsuo)
Add locale awareness to regular expression character classes
Enable multibyte support by default (Tatso)
Add GB18030 multibyte support (Bill Huang)
Add CREATE/DROP CONVERSION, allowing loadable encodings (Tatsuo,
Kaori)
Add pg_conversion table (Tatsuo)
Add SQL99 CONVERT() function (Tatsuo)
pg_dumpall, pg_controldata, and pg_resetxlog now national-language
aware (Peter)
New and updated translations
_________________________________________________________________
Server-side Languages
Allow recursive SQL function (Peter)
Change PL/Tcl build to use configured compiler and Makefile.shlib
(Peter)
Overhaul the PL/pgSQL FOUND variable to be more Oracle-compatible
(Neil, Tom)
Allow PL/pgSQL to handle quoted identifiers (Tom)
Allow set-returning PL/pgSQL functions (Neil)
Make PL/pgSQL schema-aware (Joe)
Remove some memory leaks (Nigel J. Andrews, Tom)
_________________________________________________________________
Psql
Don't lowercase psql \connect database name for 7.2.0 compatibility
(Tom)
Add psql \timing to time user queries (Greg Sabino Mullane)
Have psql \d show index information (Greg Sabino Mullane)
New psql \dD shows domains (Jonathan Eisler)
Allow psql to show rules on views (Paul ?)
Fix for psql variable substitution (Tom)
Allow psql \d to show temporary table structure (Tom)
Allow psql \d to show foreign keys (Rod)
Fix \? to honor \pset pager (Bruce)
Have psql reports its version number on startup (Tom)
Allow \copy to specify column names (Tom)
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Libpq
Add $HOME/.pgpass to store host/user password combinations (Alvaro
Herrera)
Add PQunescapeBytea() function to libpq (Patrick Welche)
Fix for sending large queries over non-blocking connections
(Bernhard Herzog)
Fix for libpq using timers on Win9X (David Ford)
Allow libpq notify to handle servers with different-length
identifiers (Tom)
Add libpq PQescapeString() and PQescapeBytea() to Win32 (Bruce)
Fix for SSL with non-blocking connections (Jack Bates)
Add libpq connection timeout parameter (Denis A Ustimenko)
_________________________________________________________________
JDBC
Allow JDBC to compile with JDK 1.4 (Dave)
Add JDBC 3 support (Barry)
Allows JDBC to set loglevel by adding ?loglevel=X to the connection
URL (Barry)
Add Driver.info() message that prints out the version number (Barry)
Add updateable result sets (Raghu Nidagal, Dave)
Add support for callable statements (Paul Bethe)
Add query cancel capability
Add refresh row (Dave)
Fix MD5 encryption handling for multibyte servers (Jun Kawai)
Add support for prepared statements (Barry)
_________________________________________________________________
Miscellaneous Interfaces
Fixed ECPG bug concerning octal numbers in single quotes (Michael)
Move src/interfaces/libpgeasy to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc,
Bruce)
Improve Python interface (Elliot Lee, Andrew Johnson, Greg Copeland)
Add libpgtcl connection close event (Gerhard Hintermayer)
Move src/interfaces/libpq++ to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc,
Bruce)
Move src/interfaces/odbc to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc)
Move src/interfaces/libpgeasy to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc,
Bruce)
Move src/interfaces/perl5 to http://gborg.postgresql.org (Marc,
Bruce)
Remove src/bin/pgaccess from main tree, now at
http://www.pgaccess.org (Bruce)
Add pg_on_connection_loss command to libpgtcl (Gerhard Hintermayer,
Tom)
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Source Code
Fix for parallel make (Peter)
AIX fixes for linking Tcl (Andreas Zeugswetter)
Allow PL/Perl to build under Cygwin (Jason Tishler)
Improve MIPS compiles (Peter, Oliver Elphick)
Require Autoconf version 2.53 (Peter)
Require readline and zlib by default in configure (Peter)
Allow Solaris to use Intimate Shared Memory (ISM), for performance
(Scott Brunza, P.J. Josh Rovero)
Always enable syslog in compile, remove --enable-syslog option
(Tatsuo)
Always enable multibyte in compile, remove --enable-multibyte option
(Tatsuo)
Always enable locale in compile, remove --enable-locale option
(Peter)
Fix for Win9x DLL creation (Magnus Naeslund)
Fix for link() usage by WAL code on Win32, BeOS (Jason Tishler)
Add sys/types.h to c.h, remove from main files (Peter, Bruce)
Fix AIX hang on SMP machines (Tomoyuki Niijima)
AIX SMP hang fix (Tomoyuki Niijima)
Fix pre-1970 date handling on newer glibc libraries (Tom)
Fix PowerPC SMP locking (Tom)
Prevent gcc -ffast-math from being used (Peter, Tom)
Bison >= 1.50 now required for developer builds
Kerberos 5 support now builds with Heimdal (Peter)
Add appendix in the User's Guide which lists SQL features (Thomas)
Improve loadable module linking to use RTLD_NOW (Tom)
New error levels WARNING, INFO, LOG, DEBUG[1-5] (Bruce)
New src/port directory holds replaced libc functions (Peter, Bruce)
New pg_namespace system catalog for schemas (Tom)
Add pg_class.relnamespace for schemas (Tom)
Add pg_type.typnamespace for schemas (Tom)
Add pg_proc.pronamespace for schemas (Tom)
Restructure aggregates to have pg_proc entries (Tom)
System relations now have their own namespace, pg_* test not required
(Fernando Nasser)
Rename TOAST index names to be *_index rather than *_idx (Neil)
Add namespaces for operators, opclasses (Tom)
Add additional checks to server control file (Thomas)
New Polish FAQ (Marcin Mazurek)
Add Posix semaphore support (Tom)
Document need for reindex (Bruce)
Rename some internal identifiers to simplify Win32 compile (Jan,
Katherine Ward)
Add documentation on computing disk space (Bruce)
Remove KSQO from GUC (Bruce)
Fix memory leak in rtree (Kenneth Been)
Modify a few error messages for consistency (Bruce)
Remove unused system table columns (Peter)
Make system columns NOT NULL where appropriate (Tom)
Clean up use of sprintf in favor of snprintf() (Neil, Jukka Holappa)
Remove OPAQUE and create specific subtypes (Tom)
Cleanups in array internal handling (Joe, Tom)
Disallow pg_atoi('') (Bruce)
Remove parameter wal_files because WAL files are now recycled (Bruce)
Add version numbers to heap pages (Tom)
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Contrib
Allow inet arrays in /contrib/array (Neil)
Gist fixes (Teodor Sigaev, Neil)
Upgrade /contrib/mysql
Add /contrib/dbsize which shows table sizes without vacuum (Peter)
Add /contrib/intagg, integer aggregator routines (mlw)
Improve /contrib/oid2name (Neil, Bruce)
Improve /contrib/tsearch (Oleg, Teodor Sigaev)
Cleanups of /contrib/rserver (Alexey V. Borzov)
Update /contrib/oracle conversion utility (Gilles Darold)
Update /contrib/dblink (Joe)
Improve options supported by /contrib/vacuumlo (Mario Weilguni)
Improvements to /contrib/intarray (Oleg, Teodor Sigaev, Andrey
Oktyabrski)
Add /contrib/reindexdb utility (Shaun Thomas)
Add indexing to /contrib/isbn_issn (Dan Weston)
Add /contrib/dbmirror (Steven Singer)
Improve /contrib/pgbench (Neil)
Add /contrib/tablefunc table function examples (Joe)
Add /contrib/ltree data type for tree structures (Teodor Sigaev,
Oleg Bartunov)
Move /contrib/pg_controldata, pg_resetxlog into main tree (Bruce)
Fixes to /contrib/cube (Bruno Wolff)
Improve /contrib/fulltextindex (Christopher)
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Release 7.2.6
Release date: 2004-10-22
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.5.
_________________________________________________________________
Migration to version 7.2.6
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.2.X.
_________________________________________________________________
Changes
* Repair possible failure to update hint bits on disk
Under rare circumstances this oversight could lead to "could not
access transaction status" failures, which qualifies it as a
potential-data-loss bug.
* Ensure that hashed outer join does not miss tuples
Very large left joins using a hash join plan could fail to output
unmatched left-side rows given just the right data distribution.
* Disallow running pg_ctl as root
This is to guard against any possible security issues.
* Avoid using temp files in /tmp in make_oidjoins_check
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.
* Update to newer versions of Bison
_________________________________________________________________
Release 7.2.5
Release date: 2004-08-16
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.4.
_________________________________________________________________
Migration to version 7.2.5
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.2.X.
_________________________________________________________________
Changes
* Prevent possible loss of committed transactions during crash
Due to insufficient interlocking between transaction commit and
checkpointing, it was possible for transactions committed just
before the most recent checkpoint to be lost, in whole or in part,
following a database crash and restart. This is a serious bug that
has existed since PostgreSQL 7.1.
* Fix corner case for btree search in parallel with first root page
split
* Fix buffer overrun in to_ascii (Guido Notari)
* Fix core dump in deadlock detection on machines where char is
unsigned
* Fix failure to respond to "pg_ctl stop -m fast" after
Async_NotifyHandler runs
* Repair memory leaks in pg_dump
* Avoid conflict with system definition of isblank() function or
macro
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Release 7.2.4
Release date: 2003-01-30
This has a variety of fixes from 7.2.3, including fixes to prevent
possible data loss.
_________________________________________________________________
Migration to version 7.2.4
A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.2.X.
_________________________________________________________________
Changes
Fix some additional cases of VACUUM "No one parent tuple was found"
error
Prevent VACUUM from being called inside a function (Bruce)
Ensure pg_clog updates are sync'd to disk before marking checkpoint
complete
Avoid integer overflow during large hash joins
Make GROUP commands work when pg_group.grolist is large enough
to be toasted
Fix errors in datetime tables; some timezone names weren't being
recognized
Fix integer overflows in circle_poly(), path_encode(), path_add()
(Neil)
Repair long-standing logic errors in lseg_eq(), lseg_ne(), lseg_center()
_________________________________________________________________
Release 7.2.3
Release date: 2002-10-01
This has a variety of fixes from 7.2.2, including fixes to prevent
possible data loss.
_________________________________________________________________
Migration to version 7.2.3
A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.2.X.
_________________________________________________________________
Changes
Prevent possible compressed transaction log loss (Tom)
Prevent non-superuser from increasing most recent vacuum info (Tom)
Handle pre-1970 date values in newer versions of glibc (Tom)
Fix possible hang during server shutdown
Prevent spinlock hangs on SMP PPC machines (Tomoyuki Niijima)
Fix pg_dump to properly dump FULL JOIN USING (Tom)
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Release 7.2.2
Release date: 2002-08-23
This has a variety of fixes from 7.2.1.