A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.4.
- If you want to install the fixes in the information schema concerning
- the bit types, you need to reload the information schema. This is
- either accomplished by initializing a new cluster by running "initdb",
- or by running the following sequence of SQL commands in each database
- (ideally including template1) as a superuser in psql, after installing
- the new release:
+ If you want to install the fixes in the information schema you need to
+ reload it into the database. This is either accomplished by
+ initializing a new cluster by running "initdb", or by running the
+ following sequence of SQL commands in each database (ideally including
+ template1) as a superuser in psql, after installing the new release:
DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE;
\i /usr/local/pgsql/share/information_schema.sql
Changes as of 2003-12-14
- * Fixed bug in CREATE SCHEMA parsing (Michael)
- * Fix --enable-thread-safety compile error when used with
- --with-perl (Peter)
+ * 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)
Certain subqueries that used hash joins would crash because of
improperly shared structures.
(Tom)
Fix these functions to return values consistent with pre-7.4
releases.
- * Several /contrib/pg_autovacuum fixes
+ * Several "contrib/pg_autovacuum" fixes
Fixes include improper variable initialization, missing vacuum
- after TRUNCATE, and duration computation overflow for long
+ after "TRUNCATE", and duration computation overflow for long
vacuums.
- * Allow compile of /contrib/cube under Cygwin (Jason Tishler)
+ * Allow compile of "contrib/cube" under Cygwin (Jason Tishler)
* Fix Solaris use of password file when no passwords are defined
(Tom)
Fix crash on Solaris caused by use of any type of password
authentication when no passwords were defined.
* JDBC fix for thread problems, other fixes
- * Fix for index bytea lookups (Joe)
+ * Fix for bytea index lookups (Joe)
* Fix information schema for bit data types (Peter)
- To enable this fix, an initdb is required.
* Force zero_damaged_pages to be on during recovery from WAL
* Prevent some obscure cases of "variable not in subplan target
lists"