E.236. Release 8.1.10
Release date: 2007-09-17
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.9. For information about new features in the 8.1 major release, see Section E.246 .
E.236.1. Migration to Version 8.1.10
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X. However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.1.2, see Section E.244 .
E.236.2. Changes
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Prevent index corruption when a transaction inserts rows and then aborts close to the end of a concurrent
VACUUMon the same table (Tom) -
Make
CREATE DOMAIN ... DEFAULT NULLwork properly (Tom) -
Allow the
intervaldata type to accept input consisting only of milliseconds or microseconds (Neil) -
Speed up rtree index insertion (Teodor)
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Fix excessive logging of SSL error messages (Tom)
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Fix logging so that log messages are never interleaved when using the syslogger process (Andrew)
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Fix crash when
log_min_error_statementlogging runs out of memory (Tom) -
Fix incorrect handling of some foreign-key corner cases (Tom)
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Prevent
REINDEXandCLUSTERfrom failing due to attempting to process temporary tables of other sessions (Alvaro) -
Update the time zone database rules, particularly New Zealand's upcoming changes (Tom)
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Windows socket improvements (Magnus)
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Suppress timezone name (
%Z) in log timestamps on Windows because of possible encoding mismatches (Tom) -
Require non-superusers who use
/contrib/dblinkto use only password authentication, as a security measure (Joe)