E.270. Release 8.0.10
Release date: 2007-01-08
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.9. For information about new features in the 8.0 major release, see Section E.280 .
E.270.1. Migration to Version 8.0.10
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X. However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0.6, see Section E.274 .
E.270.2. Changes
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Improve handling of
getaddrinfo()
on AIX (Tom)This fixes a problem with starting the statistics collector, among other things.
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Fix " failed to re-find parent key " errors in
VACUUM
(Tom) -
Fix race condition for truncation of a large relation across a gigabyte boundary by
VACUUM
(Tom) -
Fix bugs affecting multi-gigabyte hash indexes (Tom)
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Fix possible deadlock in Windows signal handling (Teodor)
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Fix error when constructing an
ARRAY[]
made up of multiple empty elements (Tom) -
Fix ecpg memory leak during connection (Michael)
-
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. -
Update timezone database
This affects Australian and Canadian daylight-savings rules in particular.