E.305. Release 7.3.1
Release date: 2002-12-18
This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.3.
E.305.1. Migration to Version 7.3.1
A dump/restore is not required for those running version 7.3. However, it should be noted that the main PostgreSQL interface library, libpq, has a new major version number for this release, which might require recompilation of client code in certain cases.
E.305.2. Changes
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Fix a core dump of COPY TO when client/server encodings don't match (Tom)
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Allow pg_dump to work with pre-7.2 servers (Philip)
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contrib/adddepend fixes (Tom)
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Fix problem with deletion of per-user/per-database config settings (Tom)
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contrib/vacuumlo fix (Tom)
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Allow 'password' encryption even when pg_shadow contains MD5 passwords (Bruce)
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contrib/dbmirror fix (Steven Singer)
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Optimizer fixes (Tom)
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contrib/tsearch fixes (Teodor Sigaev, Magnus)
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Allow locale names to be mixed case (Nicolai Tufar)
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Increment libpq library's major version number (Bruce)
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pg_hba.conf error reporting fixes (Bruce, Neil)
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Add SCO Openserver 5.0.4 as a supported platform (Bruce)
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Prevent EXPLAIN from crashing server (Tom)
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SSL fixes (Nathan Mueller)
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Prevent composite column creation via ALTER TABLE (Tom)