Appendix E. Release Notes

Table of Contents

E.1. Release 8.2.1
E.1.1. Migration to version 8.2.1
E.1.2. Changes
E.2. Release 8.2
E.2.1. Overview
E.2.2. Migration to version 8.2
E.2.3. Changes
E.3. Release 8.1.6
E.3.1. Migration to version 8.1.6
E.3.2. Changes
E.4. Release 8.1.5
E.4.1. Migration to version 8.1.5
E.4.2. Changes
E.5. Release 8.1.4
E.5.1. Migration to version 8.1.4
E.5.2. Changes
E.6. Release 8.1.3
E.6.1. Migration to version 8.1.3
E.6.2. Changes
E.7. Release 8.1.2
E.7.1. Migration to version 8.1.2
E.7.2. Changes
E.8. Release 8.1.1
E.8.1. Migration to version 8.1.1
E.8.2. Changes
E.9. Release 8.1
E.9.1. Overview
E.9.2. Migration to version 8.1
E.9.3. Additional Changes
E.10. Release 8.0.10
E.10.1. Migration to version 8.0.10
E.10.2. Changes
E.11. Release 8.0.9
E.11.1. Migration to version 8.0.9
E.11.2. Changes
E.12. Release 8.0.8
E.12.1. Migration to version 8.0.8
E.12.2. Changes
E.13. Release 8.0.7
E.13.1. Migration to version 8.0.7
E.13.2. Changes
E.14. Release 8.0.6
E.14.1. Migration to version 8.0.6
E.14.2. Changes
E.15. Release 8.0.5
E.15.1. Migration to version 8.0.5
E.15.2. Changes
E.16. Release 8.0.4
E.16.1. Migration to version 8.0.4
E.16.2. Changes
E.17. Release 8.0.3
E.17.1. Migration to version 8.0.3
E.17.2. Changes
E.18. Release 8.0.2
E.18.1. Migration to version 8.0.2
E.18.2. Changes
E.19. Release 8.0.1
E.19.1. Migration to version 8.0.1
E.19.2. Changes
E.20. Release 8.0
E.20.1. Overview
E.20.2. Migration to version 8.0
E.20.3. Deprecated Features
E.20.4. Changes
E.21. Release 7.4.15
E.21.1. Migration to version 7.4.15
E.21.2. Changes
E.22. Release 7.4.14
E.22.1. Migration to version 7.4.14
E.22.2. Changes
E.23. Release 7.4.13
E.23.1. Migration to version 7.4.13
E.23.2. Changes
E.24. Release 7.4.12
E.24.1. Migration to version 7.4.12
E.24.2. Changes
E.25. Release 7.4.11
E.25.1. Migration to version 7.4.11
E.25.2. Changes
E.26. Release 7.4.10
E.26.1. Migration to version 7.4.10
E.26.2. Changes
E.27. Release 7.4.9
E.27.1. Migration to version 7.4.9
E.27.2. Changes
E.28. Release 7.4.8
E.28.1. Migration to version 7.4.8
E.28.2. Changes
E.29. Release 7.4.7
E.29.1. Migration to version 7.4.7
E.29.2. Changes
E.30. Release 7.4.6
E.30.1. Migration to version 7.4.6
E.30.2. Changes
E.31. Release 7.4.5
E.31.1. Migration to version 7.4.5
E.31.2. Changes
E.32. Release 7.4.4
E.32.1. Migration to version 7.4.4
E.32.2. Changes
E.33. Release 7.4.3
E.33.1. Migration to version 7.4.3
E.33.2. Changes
E.34. Release 7.4.2
E.34.1. Migration to version 7.4.2
E.34.2. Changes
E.35. Release 7.4.1
E.35.1. Migration to version 7.4.1
E.35.2. Changes
E.36. Release 7.4
E.36.1. Overview
E.36.2. Migration to version 7.4
E.36.3. Changes
E.37. Release 7.3.17
E.37.1. Migration to version 7.3.17
E.37.2. Changes
E.38. Release 7.3.16
E.38.1. Migration to version 7.3.16
E.38.2. Changes
E.39. Release 7.3.15
E.39.1. Migration to version 7.3.15
E.39.2. Changes
E.40. Release 7.3.14
E.40.1. Migration to version 7.3.14
E.40.2. Changes
E.41. Release 7.3.13
E.41.1. Migration to version 7.3.13
E.41.2. Changes
E.42. Release 7.3.12
E.42.1. Migration to version 7.3.12
E.42.2. Changes
E.43. Release 7.3.11
E.43.1. Migration to version 7.3.11
E.43.2. Changes
E.44. Release 7.3.10
E.44.1. Migration to version 7.3.10
E.44.2. Changes
E.45. Release 7.3.9
E.45.1. Migration to version 7.3.9
E.45.2. Changes
E.46. Release 7.3.8
E.46.1. Migration to version 7.3.8
E.46.2. Changes
E.47. Release 7.3.7
E.47.1. Migration to version 7.3.7
E.47.2. Changes
E.48. Release 7.3.6
E.48.1. Migration to version 7.3.6
E.48.2. Changes
E.49. Release 7.3.5
E.49.1. Migration to version 7.3.5
E.49.2. Changes
E.50. Release 7.3.4
E.50.1. Migration to version 7.3.4
E.50.2. Changes
E.51. Release 7.3.3
E.51.1. Migration to version 7.3.3
E.51.2. Changes
E.52. Release 7.3.2
E.52.1. Migration to version 7.3.2
E.52.2. Changes
E.53. Release 7.3.1
E.53.1. Migration to version 7.3.1
E.53.2. Changes
E.54. Release 7.3
E.54.1. Overview
E.54.2. Migration to version 7.3
E.54.3. Changes
E.55. Release 7.2.8
E.55.1. Migration to version 7.2.8
E.55.2. Changes
E.56. Release 7.2.7
E.56.1. Migration to version 7.2.7
E.56.2. Changes
E.57. Release 7.2.6
E.57.1. Migration to version 7.2.6
E.57.2. Changes
E.58. Release 7.2.5
E.58.1. Migration to version 7.2.5
E.58.2. Changes
E.59. Release 7.2.4
E.59.1. Migration to version 7.2.4
E.59.2. Changes
E.60. Release 7.2.3
E.60.1. Migration to version 7.2.3
E.60.2. Changes
E.61. Release 7.2.2
E.61.1. Migration to version 7.2.2
E.61.2. Changes
E.62. Release 7.2.1
E.62.1. Migration to version 7.2.1
E.62.2. Changes
E.63. Release 7.2
E.63.1. Overview
E.63.2. Migration to version 7.2
E.63.3. Changes
E.64. Release 7.1.3
E.64.1. Migration to version 7.1.3
E.64.2. Changes
E.65. Release 7.1.2
E.65.1. Migration to version 7.1.2
E.65.2. Changes
E.66. Release 7.1.1
E.66.1. Migration to version 7.1.1
E.66.2. Changes
E.67. Release 7.1
E.67.1. Migration to version 7.1
E.67.2. Changes
E.68. Release 7.0.3
E.68.1. Migration to version 7.0.3
E.68.2. Changes
E.69. Release 7.0.2
E.69.1. Migration to version 7.0.2
E.69.2. Changes
E.70. Release 7.0.1
E.70.1. Migration to version 7.0.1
E.70.2. Changes
E.71. Release 7.0
E.71.1. Migration to version 7.0
E.71.2. Changes
E.72. Release 6.5.3
E.72.1. Migration to version 6.5.3
E.72.2. Changes
E.73. Release 6.5.2
E.73.1. Migration to version 6.5.2
E.73.2. Changes
E.74. Release 6.5.1
E.74.1. Migration to version 6.5.1
E.74.2. Changes
E.75. Release 6.5
E.75.1. Migration to version 6.5
E.75.2. Changes
E.76. Release 6.4.2
E.76.1. Migration to version 6.4.2
E.76.2. Changes
E.77. Release 6.4.1
E.77.1. Migration to version 6.4.1
E.77.2. Changes
E.78. Release 6.4
E.78.1. Migration to version 6.4
E.78.2. Changes
E.79. Release 6.3.2
E.79.1. Changes
E.80. Release 6.3.1
E.80.1. Changes
E.81. Release 6.3
E.81.1. Migration to version 6.3
E.81.2. Changes
E.82. Release 6.2.1
E.82.1. Migration from version 6.2 to version 6.2.1
E.82.2. Changes
E.83. Release 6.2
E.83.1. Migration from version 6.1 to version 6.2
E.83.2. Migration from version 1.x to version 6.2
E.83.3. Changes
E.84. Release 6.1.1
E.84.1. Migration from version 6.1 to version 6.1.1
E.84.2. Changes
E.85. Release 6.1
E.85.1. Migration to version 6.1
E.85.2. Changes
E.86. Release 6.0
E.86.1. Migration from version 1.09 to version 6.0
E.86.2. Migration from pre-1.09 to version 6.0
E.86.3. Changes
E.87. Release 1.09
E.88. Release 1.02
E.88.1. Migration from version 1.02 to version 1.02.1
E.88.2. Dump/Reload Procedure
E.88.3. Changes
E.89. Release 1.01
E.89.1. Migration from version 1.0 to version 1.01
E.89.2. Changes
E.90. Release 1.0
E.90.1. Changes
E.91. Postgres95 Release 0.03
E.91.1. Changes
E.92. Postgres95 Release 0.02
E.92.1. Changes
E.93. Postgres95 Release 0.01

E.1. Release 8.2.1

Release date

2007-01-08

This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.

E.1.1. Migration to version 8.2.1

A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.

E.1.2. Changes

  • Fix crash with SELECT ... LIMIT ALL (also LIMIT NULL) (Tom)

  • Several /contrib/tsearch2 fixes (Teodor)

  • On Windows, make log messages coming from the operating system use ASCII encoding (Hiroshi Saito)

    This fixes a conversion problem when there is a mismatch between the encoding of the operating system and database server.

  • Fix Windows linking of pg_dump using win32.mak (Hiroshi Saito)

  • Fix planner mistakes for outer join queries (Tom)

  • Fix several problems in queries involving sub-SELECTs (Tom)

  • Fix potential crash in SPI during subtransaction abort (Tom)

    This affects all PL functions since they all use SPI.

  • Improve build speed of PDF documentation (Peter)

  • Re-add JST (Japan) timezone abbreviation (Tom)

  • Improve optimization decisions related to index scans (Tom)

  • Have psql print multi-byte combining characters as before, rather than output as \u (Tom)

  • Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)

    This improves psql \d performance also.

  • Make pg_dumpall assume that databases have public CONNECT privilege, when dumping from a pre-8.2 server (Tom)

    This preserves the previous behavior that anyone can connect to a database if allowed by pg_hba.conf.