From: Bruce Momjian Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 03:56:25 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Update release notes for 7.4.3. X-Git-Tag: REL7_4_3~8 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c796e97abd32a17912eab8620e2ad283fe21d5b6;p=postgresql Update release notes for 7.4.3. --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml index 13e5a074d5..3a4712d363 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml @@ -1,10 +1,58 @@ Release Notes + + Release 7.4.3 + + + Release date + 2004-06-14 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.2. + + + + + Migration to version 7.4.3 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X. + + + + + Changes + + + + +Fix temporary memory leak when using hashed aggregates (Tom) +Ecpg fixes, including those for Informix compatibility (Michael) +Fixes for compiling with thread-safety, particularly Solaris (Bruce) +Fix error in termination of COPY IN mode when using old protocol (Tom) +Several pg_autovacuum fixes, including fixes for large oids, stability, temp tables, and debug fixes (Matthew T. O'Connor) +Fix problem with reading tar pg_dump's on NetBSD and BSD/OS (Bruce) +Several JDBC fixes +Fix for ALTER SEQUENCE RESTART where last_value was equals restart value (Tom) +Support FULL JOIN with no join clauses, such as X FULL JOIN Y ON TRUE (Tom) +Fix a zero-column bug (Tom) +Improve handling of non-qualitified identifiers in GROUP BY clauses (Tom) +Do not allow NATURAL CROSS JOIN (Tom) +Add missing check for invalid protocol packet length in binary COPY (Tom) + + This fixes a difficult-to-exploit security hole. + + + + + + Release 7.4.2 @@ -1447,7 +1495,11 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE; - Have COMMENT ON DATABASE on nonlocal database generate a warning (Rod) + + Have COMMENT ON DATABASE on nonlocal + database generate a warning, rather than an error (Rod) + + Database comments are stored in database-local tables so comments on a database have to be stored in each database. @@ -1688,8 +1740,8 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE; - New function pg_get_triggerdef(prettyprint) - and pg_constraint_is_visible() + New functions pg_get_triggerdef(prettyprint) + and pg_conversion_is_visible() (Christopher) @@ -1706,7 +1758,7 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE; - Make pg_get_constraintdef to support + Make pg_get_constraintdef support unique, primary-key, and check constraints (Christopher) @@ -1744,7 +1796,7 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE; The Python language no longer supports a restricted execution environment, so the trusted version of PL/Python was removed. If - this situation changes, a version of PL/python that can be used + this situation changes, a version of PL/Python that can be used by non-superusers will be readded. @@ -1807,7 +1859,7 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE; \encoding now changes based on the server parameter - client_encoding server (Tom) + client_encoding (Tom) In previous versions, \encoding was not aware @@ -1938,7 +1990,7 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE; - Improve performance of function PGunescapeBytea (Ben Lamb) + Improve performance of function PQunescapeBytea (Ben Lamb)