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<appendix id="release">
<title>Release Notes</title>
<sect1 id="release-8-2-1">
<title>Release 8.2.1</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2007-01-08</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to version 8.2.1</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <literal>SELECT</> ... <literal>LIMIT NULL</> to behave as
<literal>LIMIT ALL</> (Tom)
</para>
<para>
A bug in 8.2.0 caused the server to crash.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<filename>/contrib/tsearch2</> fixes (Teodor)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix WIN32 server log messages coming from the operating system to use
<acronym>ASCII</> encoding (Hiroshi Saito)
</para>
<para>
This fixes a conversion problem when there is a mismatch between
the encoding of the operating system and database server.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix WIN32 linking of <application>pg_dump</> using <filename>win32.mak</>
(Hiroshi Saito)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Various fixes for outer join queries (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve build speed of <acronym>PDF</> documentation (Peter)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Re-add <acronym>JST</> (Japan) timezone abbreviation (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve optimization decisions related to index scans (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Have <application>psql</> print multi-byte combining characters, rather
than output as <literal>\u</> (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This improves <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> performance also.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-8-2">
<title>Release 8.2</title>
@ -2581,6 +2689,151 @@ links to the main documentation.
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-8-1-6">
<title>Release 8.1.6</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2007-01-08</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.5.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to version 8.1.6</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X.
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.1.2,
see the release notes for 8.1.2.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve handling of <function>getaddrinfo()</> on AIX (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This fixes a problem with starting the statistics collector,
among other things.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>pg_restore</> so it can restore a tar-format backup
that contains large object comments (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <link linkend="SQL-VACUUM"><command>VACUUM</></link> to recover from
a rare problem during index page deletion/split (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix point-in-time-recovery bug where stale status files could prevent
restore (Simon, Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix error when constructing an <literal>ARRAY[]</> made up of multiple empty
elements (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix ecpg memory leak during connection (Michael)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve savepoint and multi-transction row locking algorithms to avoid
erroneous deadlock cases (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix problem with extending hash indexes that span multiple 1-gigabyte
segments (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix problem where truncation of a multi-gigabyte table might cause
consistency problems with other backends (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix for Darwin/OS-X compiles (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<function>to_number()</> and <function>to_char(numeric)</>
are now <literal>STABLE</>, not <literal>IMMUTABLE</>, for
new <link linkend="APP-INITDB"><application>initdb</></link>
installs (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This is because <link
linkend="guc-lc-numeric"><varname>lc_numeric</></link> can potentially
change the output of the functions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update timezone database, particularly for Western Australia,
which has a new daylight savings date (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Document a risk that if a row is locked inside multiple sub-transactions
in the same transaction, and a sub-transaction is rolled back, the row
lock is lost (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This improves <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> performance also.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-8-1-5">
<title>Release 8.1.5</title>
@ -5241,6 +5494,124 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-8-0-10">
<title>Release 8.0.10</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2007-01-08</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.9.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to version 8.0.10</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X. However,
if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0.6, see the release
notes for 8.0.6.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve handling of <function>getaddrinfo()</> on AIX (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This fixes a problem with starting the statistics collector,
among other things.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <link linkend="SQL-VACUUM"><command>VACUUM</></link> to recover from
a rare problem during index page deletion/split (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix error when constructing an <literal>ARRAY[]</> made up of multiple
empty elements (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix ecpg memory leak during connection (Michael)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix problem with extending hash indexes that span multiple 1-gigabyte
segments (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix problem where truncation of a multi-gigabyte table might cause
consistency problems with other backends (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<function>to_number()</> and <function>to_char(numeric)</>
are now <literal>STABLE</>, not <literal>IMMUTABLE</>, for
new <link linkend="APP-INITDB"><application>initdb</></link>
installs (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This is because <link
linkend="guc-lc-numeric"><varname>lc_numeric</></link> can potentially
change the output of the functions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update timezone database, particularly for Western Australia,
which has a new daylight savings date (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Document a risk that if a row is locked inside multiple sub-transactions
in the same transaction, and a sub-transaction is rolled back, the row
lock is lost (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This improves <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> performance also.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-8-0-9">
<title>Release 8.0.9</title>
@ -8448,6 +8819,96 @@ typedefs (Michael)</para></listitem>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-4-15">
<title>Release 7.4.15</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2007-01-08</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.14.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to version 7.4.15</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X. However,
if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.11, see the release
notes for 7.4.11.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve handling of <function>getaddrinfo()</> on AIX (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This fixes a problem with starting the statistics collector,
among other things.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <link linkend="SQL-VACUUM"><command>VACUUM</></link> to recover from
a rare problem during index page deletion/split (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix error when constructing an <literal>ARRAY[]</> made up of multiple empty
elements (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix problem with extending hash indexes that span multiple 1-gigabyte
segments (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<function>to_number()</> and <function>to_char(numeric)</>
are now <literal>STABLE</>, not <literal>IMMUTABLE</>, for
new <link linkend="APP-INITDB"><application>initdb</></link>
installs (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This is because <link
linkend="guc-lc-numeric"><varname>lc_numeric</></link> can potentially
change the output of the functions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This improves <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> performance also.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-4-14">
<title>Release 7.4.14</title>
@ -11407,6 +11868,64 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE;
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-3-17">
<title>Release 7.3.17</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2007-01-08</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.3.16.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to version 7.3.17</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X. However,
if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.3.13, see the release
notes for 7.3.13.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<function>to_number()</> and <function>to_char(numeric)</>
are now <literal>STABLE</>, not <literal>IMMUTABLE</>, for
new <link linkend="APP-INITDB"><application>initdb</></link>
installs (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This is because <link
linkend="guc-lc-numeric"><varname>lc_numeric</></link> can potentially
change the output of the functions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This improves <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> performance also.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-3-16">
<title>Release 7.3.16</title>