De PostgreSQL Global Development Group heeft versie 7.4.2 van de populaire open-source database PostgreSQL uitgebracht. Zoals bij elke minor release van deze database ligt de focus op verbetering van de stabiliteit en het verhelpen van aanwezige bugs, echter er zijn ook een aantal nieuwe features aan de Embedded C interface toegevoegd. De release notes zien er als volgt uit:
After several fixes were backpatches to the 7_4_STABLE branch, we have now released a 7.4.2. As the list of Changes since 7.4.2 is quite small, they are included in this email:Unlike most minor versions, this version does require some updates to the pg_* system tables. Full instructions for how to do this are included in the full HISTORY file.
- Fix pg_statistics alignment bug that could crash optimizer
- Allow non-super users to update pg_settings
- Fix several optimizer bugs, most of which led to "variable not found in subplan target lists" errors
- Avoid out-of-memory failure during startup of large multiple index scan
- Fix multibyte problem that could lead to "out of memory" error during "COPY IN"
- Fix problems with "SELECT INTO" / "CREATE TABLE AS" from tables without OIDs
- Fix problems with "alter_table" regression test during parallel testing
- Fix problems with hitting open file limit, especially on OS X (Tom)
- Partial fix for Turkish-locale issues
- Make pg_dump set client encoding on restore
- Other minor pg_dump fixes
- Allow ecpg to again use C keywords as column names (Michael)
- Added ecpg WHENEVER NOT_FOUND to SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE (Michael)
- Fix ecpg crash for queries calling set-returning functions (Michael)
- Various other ecpg fixes (Michael)
- Fixes for Borland compiler
- Thread build improvements (Bruce)
- Various other build fixes
- Various JDBC fixes
As always, this release is available on all our mirrors, viable at:
http://www.postgresql.org/mirrors-www.html
And, thanks to David Fetter, is also available via BitTorrent at:http://bt.postgresql.org[break]Op één van de nederlandse mirrors staan de volgende bestanden klaar:postgresql-7.4.2 Tarball - Bzip2
postgresql-base-7.4.2 Tarball - Bzip2
postgresql-docs-7.4.2 Tarball - Bzip2
postgresql-opt-7.4.2 Tarball - Bzip2
postgresql-test-7.4.2 Tarball - Bzip2