Release 7.3.3

Release Date: 2003-05-22

This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.3.2.

E.276.1. Migration to Version 7.3.3

A dump/restore is not required for those running version 7.3.*.

E.276.2. Changes

  • 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