Release date: 2009-02-02
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.19. For information about new features in the 8.0 major release, see Section E.253.
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X. However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0.6, see Section E.247.
Improve handling of URLs in headline() function (Teodor)
Improve handling of overlength headlines in headline()
function (Teodor)
Prevent possible Assert failure or misconversion if an encoding conversion is created with the wrong conversion function for the specified pair of encodings (Tom, Heikki)
Avoid unnecessary locking of small tables in VACUUM
(Heikki)
Fix uninitialized variables in contrib/tsearch2's
get_covers() function (Teodor)
Make all documentation reference pgsql-bugs and/or
pgsql-hackers as appropriate, instead of the
now-decommissioned pgsql-ports and pgsql-patches
mailing lists (Tom)
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2009a (for Kathmandu and historical DST corrections in Switzerland, Cuba)