Re: v7.2.1 Released: Critical Bug Fix

From: Richard Emberson <emberson(at)phc(dot)net>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-announce(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: v7.2.1 Released: Critical Bug Fix
Date: 2002-04-02 17:00:11
Message-ID: 3CA9E39B.337723D6@phc.net
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Generally, what is the duration between such an announcement and the
appearence of
the RPMs found on the Download PostgreSQL page?

Also, the http://www.us.postgresql.org/news.html has no mention of this
upgrade.

Thanks.

Richard

"Marc G. Fournier" wrote:

> Over this past weekend, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group packaged
> up and put onto our ftp server PostgreSQL v7.2.1 ... a bug fix release, it
> fixes a critical bug in v7.2:
>
> sequence counters will go backwards after a crash
>
> Other fixes since v7.2 include:
>
> Fix pgaccess kanji-coversion key binding (Tatsuo)
> Optimizer improvements (Tom)
> cash I/O improvements (Tom)
> New Russian FAQ
> Compile fix for missing AuthBlockSig (Heiko)
> Additional time zones and time zone fixes (Thomas)
> Allow psql \connect to handle mixed case database and user names (Tom)
> Return proper OID on command completion even with ON INSERT rules (Tom)
> Allow COPY FROM to use 8-bit DELIMITERS (Tatsuo)
> Fix bug in extract/date_part for milliseconds/microseconds (Tatsuo)
> Improve handling of multiple UNIONs with different lengths (Tom)
> contrib/btree_gist improvements (Teodor Sigaev)
> contrib/tsearch dictionary improvements, see README.tsearch for
> an additional installation step (Thomas T. Thai, Teodor Sigaev)
> Fix for array subscripts handling (Tom)
> Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/PgSQL (Tom)
>
> Upgrading to v7.2.1 from v7.2 *does not* require a dump/reload, but it is
> required from all previous releases ...
>
> Due to the nature of the bug with the sequence counters, it is *highly*
> recommended that anyone running v7.2 upgrade to the latest version at
> their earliest convience ...
>
> Marc G. Fournier
>
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