From cb95ec2f7a038ab4a8cbc16f01d416a7ba6242e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Eisentraut Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 20:06:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 7.4.1 release note improvements --- doc/src/sgml/release.sgml | 36 ++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml index 350917eff9..f20bbfeb3f 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.248 2003/12/17 07:07:00 momjian If you want to install the fixes in the information schema - concerning the bit types, you need to reload the information - schema. This is either accomplished by initializing a new cluster + you need to reload it into the database. + This is either accomplished by initializing a new cluster by running initdb, or by running the following sequence of SQL commands in each database (ideally including template1) as a superuser in @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE; Changes as of 2003-12-14 -Fixed bug in CREATE SCHEMA parsing (Michael) -Fix --enable-thread-safety compile error when used with --with-perl (Peter) +Fixed bug in CREATE SCHEMA parsing in ECPG (Michael) +Fix compile error when and are used together (Peter) Fix for subqueries that used hash joins (Tom) Certain subqueries that used hash joins would crash because of @@ -62,19 +62,19 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE; Fix for Borland compiler build of libpq (Bruce) -Fix netmask() and hostmask() to return the maximum-length masklen (Tom) +Fix netmask() and hostmask() to return the maximum-length masklen (Tom) Fix these functions to return values consistent with pre-7.4 releases. -Several /contrib/pg_autovacuum fixes +Several contrib/pg_autovacuum fixes Fixes include improper variable initialization, missing vacuum after - TRUNCATE, and duration computation overflow for long vacuums. + TRUNCATE, and duration computation overflow for long vacuums. -Allow compile of /contrib/cube under Cygwin (Jason Tishler) +Allow compile of contrib/cube under Cygwin (Jason Tishler) Fix Solaris use of password file when no passwords are defined (Tom) Fix crash on Solaris caused by use of any type of password @@ -82,23 +82,19 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE; JDBC fix for thread problems, other fixes -Fix for index bytea lookups (Joe) -Fix information schema for bit data types (Peter) - - To enable this fix, an initdb is required. - - +Fix for bytea index lookups (Joe) +Fix information schema for bit data types (Peter) Force zero_damaged_pages to be on during recovery from WAL Prevent some obscure cases of variable not in subplan target lists -Make PQescapeBytea and byteaout consistent with each other (Joe) -Escape bytea output for bytes > 0x7e(Joe) +Make PQescapeBytea and byteaout consistent with each other (Joe) +Escape bytea output for bytes > 0x7e(Joe) - If different client encodings are used for bytea output and input, it - is possible for bytea values to be corrupted by the differing + If different client encodings are used for bytea output and input, it + is possible for bytea values to be corrupted by the differing encodings. This fix escapes all bytes that might be affected. -Added missing SPI_finish() calls to dblink's get_tuple_of_interest() (Joe) +Added missing SPI_finish() calls to dblink's get_tuple_of_interest() (Joe)