Hi release team,
some days ago, new microversions of PostgreSQL were published, which
fix some data loss and stability bugs, and also have updated time zone
data for the recent Western Australia DST change.
The new versions pass the upstream test suites, my own
postgresql-common test suite, and upstream is generally very cautious
about new stable releases.
I would like to get them into Etch.
Thanks in advance!
Martin
postgresql-7.4 (1:7.4.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Urgency medium since these are important bug fixes that should reach Etch.
* New upstream bugfix release:
- Fix "failed to re-find parent key" errors in "VACUUM".
- Fix bugs affecting multi-gigabyte hash indexes.
- Fix error when constructing an ARRAY[] made up of multiple empty
elements.
- to_number() and to_char(numeric) are now STABLE, not IMMUTABLE, for
new initdb installs. This is because lc_numeric can potentially change
the output of these functions.
- Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses.
This improves psql \d performance also.
postgresql-8.1 (8.1.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Urgency medium since this fixes some important bugs that should reach
Etch.
* New upstream bugfix release:
- Fix pg_restore to handle a tar-format backup that contains large
objects (blobs) with comments.
- Fix "failed to re-find parent key" errors in "VACUUM".
- Clean out "pg_internal.init" cache files during server restart.
This avoids a hazard that the cache files might contain stale data
after PITR recovery.
- Fix race condition for truncation of a large relation across a
gigabyte boundary by "VACUUM".
- Fix bug causing needless deadlock errors on row-level locks.
- Fix bugs affecting multi-gigabyte hash indexes.
- Fix error when constructing an ARRAY[] made up of multiple empty
elements.
- Fix ecpg memory leak during connection.
- to_number() and to_char(numeric) are now STABLE, not IMMUTABLE, for
new initdb installs. This is because lc_numeric can potentially change
the output of these functions.
- Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses.
This improves psql \d performance also.
- Update timezone database to 2006p: This affects Australian and Canadian
daylight-savings rules in particular.
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Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de
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Debian Developer http://www.debian.org
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