Release 8.1.6
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Release date: 2007-01-08
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.5. For information about new features in the 8.1 major release, see Section E.200 .
E.194.1. Migration to Version 8.1.6
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.198 .
E.194.2. 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 pg_restore to handle a tar-format backup that contains large objects (blobs) with comments (Tom)
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Fix "failed to re-find parent key" errors in VACUUM (Tom)
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Clean out pg_internal.init cache files during server restart (Simon)
This avoids a hazard that the cache files might contain stale data after PITR recovery.
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Fix race condition for truncation of a large relation across a gigabyte boundary by VACUUM (Tom)
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Fix bug causing needless deadlock errors on row-level locks (Tom)
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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)
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Fix ecpg memory leak during connection (Michael)
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Fix for Darwin (OS X) compilation (Tom)
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to_number()
andto_char(numeric)
are now STABLE , not IMMUTABLE , for new initdb installs (Tom)This is because lc_numeric can potentially change the output of these functions.
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Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
This improves psql \d performance also.
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Update timezone database
This affects Australian and Canadian daylight-savings rules in particular.