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Release Notes
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+
+Release 7.0.1
+
+This is basically a cleanup release for 7.0.1
+
+Migration to v7.0.1
+
+A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.0.
+
+Changes
+-------
+Fix many CLUSTER failures (Tom)
+Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME works on indexes (Tom)
+Fix plpgsql to handle datetime->timestamp and timespan->interval (Bruce)
+New configure --with-setproctitle switch to use setproctitle() (Marc, Bruce)
+Fix the off by one errors in ResultSet from 6.5.3, and more.
+jdbc ResultSet fixes (Joseph Shraibman)
+optimizer tunings (Tom)
+Fix create user for pgaccess
+Fix for UNLISTEN failure
+IRIX fixes (David Kaelbling)
+QNX fixes (Andreas Kardos)
+Reduce COPY IN lock level (Tom)
+Change libpqeasy to use PQconnectdb() style parameters (Bruce)
+Fix pg_dump to handle OID indexes (Tom)
+Fix small memory leak (Tom)
+Solaris fix for createdb/dropdb
+Fix for non-blocking connections (Alfred Perlstein)
+Fix improper recovery after RENAME TABLE failures (Tom)
+Copy pg_ident.conf.sample into /lib directory in install (Bruce)
+
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Release 7.0
+ Release Notes
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Release 7.0
data from any previous release. For those upgrading from 6.5.*, you
can use pg_upgrade to upgrade to this release.
-Detailed Change List
+
Bug Fixes
---------
Prevent function calls with more than maximum number of arguments (Tom)
New multibyte encodings
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Release 6.5.3
+ Release Notes
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Release 6.5.3
A dump/restore is not required for those running 6.5.*.
-Detailed Change List
-
+Changes
+-------
Updated version of pgaccess 0.98
NT-specific patch
+
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Release 6.5.2
Release Notes
A dump/restore is not required for those running 6.5.*.
-Detailed Change List
-
+Changes
+-------
subselect+CASE fixes(Tom)
Add SHLIB_LINK setting for solaris_i386 and solaris_sparc ports(Daren Sefcik)
Fixes for CASE in WHERE join clauses(Tom)
Repair incorrect cleanup of heap memory allocation during transaction abort(Tom)
Updated version of pgaccess 0.98
+
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Release Notes Release 6.5.1
Release Notes
A dump/restore is not required for those running 6.5.
-Detailed Change List
-
+Changes
+-------
Add NT README file
Portability fixes for linux_ppc, Irix, linux_alpha, OpenBSD, alpha
Remove QUERY_LIMIT, use SELECT...LIMIT
Fix some compiler warnings (Tomoaki Nishiyama)
Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
+
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Release 6.5.2 Release 6.5
Release Notes
dirty (uncommitted) data (regardless of isolation level) and true
referential integrity will be implemented.
-Detailed Change List
Bug Fixes
---------
A dump/restore is not required for those running 6.4.*.
-Detailed Change List
-
+Changes
+-------
Fix for datetime constant problem on some platforms(Thomas)
+
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Release 6.5 Release 6.4.1
Release Notes
A dump/restore is not required for those running 6.4.
-Detailed Change List
-
+Changes
+-------
Add pg_dump -N flag to force double quotes around identifiers. This is
the default(Thomas)
Fix for NOT in where clause causing crash(Bruce)
Compilation of libpq for Win32 fixes(Magnus)
Upgrade to PyGreSQL 2.2(D'Arcy)
+
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Release 6.4.2 Release 6.4
Release Notes
A dump/restore using pg_dump or pg_dumpall is required for those wishing to
migrate data from any previous release of Postgres.
-Detailed Change List
Bug Fixes
---------
configure uses supplied install-sh if no install script found(Tom)
new Makefile.shlib for shared library configuration(Tom)
+
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Release 6.4.1 Release 6.3.2
Release Notes
For upgrades from pre-v6.3 installations, refer to the installation and
migration instructions for v6.3.
-Detailed Change List
Changes
-------
Makefile dependency cleanup(Jeroen van Vianen)
ASSERT fixes(Bruce)
+
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Release 6.4 Release 6.3.1
Release Notes
For upgrades from pre-v6.3 installations, refer to the installation and
migration instructions for v6.3.
-Detailed Change List
Changes
-------
Solaris compile fix(Albert Chin-A-Young)
Better identify tcl and tk libs and includes(Bruce)
+
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Release 6.3.2 Release 6.3
Release Notes
A dump/restore using pg_dump or pg_dumpall is required for those wishing to
migrate data from any previous release of Postgres.
-Detailed Change List
Bug Fixes
---------
Expand a few function names formerly truncated to 16 characters(Thomas)
Remove un-needed malloc() calls and replace with palloc()(Bruce)
+
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Release 6.3.1 Release 6.2.1
Release Notes
This will need to be done to every existing database, including template1.
-Detailed Change List
-Changes in this release
------------------------
+Changes
+-------
Allow TIME and TYPE column names(Thomas)
Allow larger range of true/false as boolean values(Thomas)
Support output of "now" and "current"(Thomas)
Documented new libpq function to return affected rows, PQcmdTuples(Bruce)
Trigger function for inserting user names for INSERT/UPDATE(Brook Milligan)
+
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Release 6.3 Release 6.2
Release Notes
Those migrating from earlier 1.* releases should first upgrade to 1.09
because the COPY output format was improved from the 1.02 release.
-Detailed Change List
Bug Fixes
---------
Files moved to /src/tools directory(Bruce)
SPI and Trigger programming guides (Vadim & D'Arcy)
+
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Release 6.2.1 Release 6.1.1
Release Notes
but is required from any release prior to v6.1. Refer to the release notes
for v6.1 for more details.
-Detailed Change List
-Changes in this release
------------------------
+Changes
+-------
fix for SET with options (Thomas)
allow pg_dump/pg_dumpall to preserve ownership of all tables/objects(Bruce)
new psql \connect option allows changing usernames without changing databases
allow underscores in usernames(Bruce)
pg_dumpall now returns proper status, portability fix(Bruce)
+
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-Release 6.2 Release 6.1
+ Release 6.1
Release Notes
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Those migrating from earlier 1.* releases should first upgrade to 1.09
because the COPY output format was improved from the 1.02 release.
-Detailed Change List
Bug Fixes
---------
warn about buggy flex(Bruce)
DG-UX, Ultrix, Irix, AIX portability fixes
+
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-Release 6.1.1 Release v6.0
+ Release v6.0
Release Notes
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Those migrating from earlier 1.* releases should first upgrade to 1.09
because the COPY output format was improved from the 1.02 release.
-Detailed Change List
Bug Fixes
---------
Restructured port-specific file locations(Bryan, Marc)
Unused/uninialized variables corrected
+
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+ Release v1.09
Release Notes
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* added DGUX port
+
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* applied public patches 1-14
+
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