Begin deze week hebben de developers van PostgreSQL maintenance-versie 7.4.1 gereleased. Dit open source-programma stelt je in staat om een SQL-database te gebruiken. De update is vanaf deze FTP-server in verschillende varianten neer te halen. De release notes laten het volgende weten:
As the list of Changes since 7.4 is fairly small, they are included in this email:
- Fixed bug in "CREATE SCHEMA" parsing in ECPG (Michael)
- Fix compile error when "--enable-thread-safety" and "--with-perl" are used together (Peter)
- Fix for subqueries that used hash joins (Tom)
- Fix free space map compaction bug (Tom)
- Fix for Borland compiler build of libpq (Bruce)
- Fix netmask() and hostmask() to return the maximum-length masklen (Tom)
- Several "contrib/pg_autovacuum" fixes
- Allow compile of "contrib/cube" under Cygwin (Jason Tishler)
- Fix Solaris use of password file when no passwords are defined (Tom)
- JDBC fix for thread problems, other fixes
- Fix for bytea index lookups (Joe)
- Fix information schema for bit data types (Peter)
- Force zero_damaged_pages to be on during recovery from WAL
- Prevent some obscure cases of "variable not in subplan target lists"
- Make PQescapeBytea and byteaout consistent with each other (Joe)
- Escape bytea output for bytes > 0x7e(Joe)
- Added missing SPI_finish() calls to dblink's get_tuple_of_interest() (Joe)
- New Czech FAQ
- Fix information schema view constraint_column_usage for foreign keys (Peter)
- ECPG fixes (Michael)
- Fix bug with multiple IN subqueries and joins in the subqueries (Tom)
- Alllow COUNT('x') to work (Tom)
- Install ECPG include files for Informix compatibility into separate directory (Peter)
- Fix SSL memory leak (Neil)
- Prevent "pg_service.conf" from using service name as default dbname (Bruce)
- Fix local ident authentication on FreeBSD (Tom)