Release date: 2006-01-09
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.3.12.
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X. However,
if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.3.10,
see Section E.296.
Also, you might need to REINDEX
indexes on textual
columns after updating, if you are affected by the locale or
plperl issues described below.
Fix character string comparison for locales that consider different character combinations as equal, such as Hungarian (Tom)
This might require REINDEX
to fix existing indexes on
textual columns.
Set locale environment variables during postmaster startup to ensure that plperl won't change the locale later
This fixes a problem that occurred if the postmaster was
started with environment variables specifying a different locale than what
initdb had been told. Under these conditions, any use of
plperl was likely to lead to corrupt indexes. You might need
REINDEX
to fix existing indexes on
textual columns if this has happened to you.
Fix longstanding bug in strpos() and regular expression handling in certain rarely used Asian multi-byte character sets (Tatsuo)
Fix bug in /contrib/pgcrypto
gen_salt,
which caused it not to use all available salt space for MD5 and
XDES algorithms (Marko Kreen, Solar Designer)
Salts for Blowfish and standard DES are unaffected.
Fix /contrib/dblink
to throw an error,
rather than crashing, when the number of columns specified is different from
what's actually returned by the query (Joe)