E.308. Release 7.3.3

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 timestampt_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-privilege-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 NULL s 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 privilege 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 single-byte 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