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Release 7.3.3
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Release date
+ 2003-05-22
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+ This has a variety of fixes from 7.3.2.
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Migration to version 7.3.3
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+ A dump/restore is not required for those
+ running 7.3.*.
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Changes
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+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 multibyte 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
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Release 7.3.2