PostgreSQL v7.0.1 Released

06-01-2000 - PostgreSQL v7.0.1 Released

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group is proud to announce the release
of PostgreSQL v7.0.1. This is essentially acleanup of v7.0. A dump/restore
is not required if you're moving from v7.0. If you're migrating from a
release earlier than v7.0 a dump/restore will be necessary.

The release is available on ftp.postgresql.org, at:

ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v7.0.1

As well as our various mirror affiliates ...

Changes

Fix many CLUSTER failures (Tom)
Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME works on indexes (Tom)
Fix plpgsql to handle datetime->timestamp and
timespan->interval (Bruce)
New configure --with-setproctitle switch to use setproctitle() (Marc, Bruce)
Fix the off by one errors in ResultSet from 6.5.3, and more.
jdbc ResultSet fixes (Joseph Shraibman)
optimizer tunings (Tom)
Fix create user for pgaccess
Fix for UNLISTEN failure
IRIX fixes (David Kaelbling)
QNX fixes (Andreas Kardos)
Reduce COPY IN lock level (Tom)
Change libpqeasy to use PQconnectdb() style parameters (Bruce)
Fix pg_dump to handle OID indexes (Tom)
Fix small memory leak (Tom)
Solaris fix for createdb/dropdb
Fix for non-blocking connections (Alfred Perlstein)
Fix improper recovery after RENAME TABLE failures (Tom)
Copy pg_ident.conf.sample into /lib directory in install (Bruce)

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