E.284. Release 7.4.15
Release date: 2007-01-08
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.14. For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see Section E.299 .
E.284.1. Migration to Version 7.4.15
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X. However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.11, see Section E.288 .
E.284.2. Changes
-
Improve handling of
getaddrinfo()
on AIX (Tom)This fixes a problem with starting the statistics collector, among other things.
-
Fix " failed to re-find parent key " errors in
VACUUM
(Tom) -
Fix bugs affecting multi-gigabyte hash indexes (Tom)
-
Fix error when constructing an
ARRAY[]
made up of multiple empty elements (Tom) -
to_number()
andto_char(numeric)
are nowSTABLE
, notIMMUTABLE
, for new initdb installs (Tom)This is because
lc_numeric
can potentially change the output of these functions. -
Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
This improves psql
\d
performance also.