Re: [ANNOUNCE] [RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT] v7.0.3 *Final* now Available

I downloaded 7.0.3 from ftp.postgresql.org yesterday (monday 14th). It
didn't say anything about a pre-release... is there some way to tell if I
have the final version?

On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

>
> After a couple of pre-release tarballs, the PostgreSQL Developers are
> proud to announce v7.0.3, our most stable release yet.
>
> There have been *several* fixes in this release, from v7.0.2, but, being a
> minor release, there have been *no* changes that will require a
> dump/restore to happen ... download the source, compile it and plug-n-play
> ...
>
> Due to a last minute fix of a bug by Tom Lane that prevents a crash of the
> backend, it is recommended that if you have downloaded one of the
> pre-release 7.0.3 tarballs, you download this version and upgrade, to be
> sure you have the fix.
>
> If anyone has any problems, please report bugs to
> pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, or submit a but through our handy web interface
> available at http://www.postgresql.org ...
>
> Changes
> -------
> Jdbc fixes (Peter)
> Large object fix (Tom)
> Fix lean in COPY WITH OIDS leak (Tom)
> Fix backwards-index-scan (Tom)
> Fix SELECT ... FOR UPDATE so it checks for duplicate keys (Hiroshi)
> Add --enable-syslog to configure (Marc)
> Fix abort transaction at backend exit in rare cases (Tom)
> Fix for psql \l+ when multi-byte enabled (Tatsuo)
> Allow PL/pgSQL to accept non ascii identifiers (Tatsuo)
> Make vacuum always flush buffers (Tom)
> Fix to allow cancel while waiting for a lock (Hiroshi)
> Fix for memory aloocation problem in user authentication code (Tom)
> Remove bogus use of int4out() (Tom)
> Fixes for multiple subqueries in COALESCE or BETWEEN (Tom)
> Fix for failure of triggers on heap open in certain cases (Jeroen van
> Vianen)
> Fix for erroneous selectivity of not-equals (Tom)
> Fix for erroneous use of strcmp() (Tom)
> Fix for bug where storage manager accesses items beyond end of file
> (Tom)
> Fix to include kernel errno message in all smgr elog messages (Tom)
> Fix for '.' not in PATH at build time (SL Baur)
> Fix for out-of-file-descriptors error (Tom)
> Fix to make pg_dump dump 'iscachable' flag for functions (Tom)
> Fix for subselect in targetlist of Append node (Tom)
> Fix for mergejoin plans (Tom)
> Fix TRUNCATE failure on relations with indexes (Tom)
> Avoid database-wide restart on write error (Hiroshi)
> Fix nodeMaterial to honor chgParam by recomputing its output (Tom)
> Fix VACUUM problem with moving chain of update tuples when source and
> destination of a tuple lie on the same page (Tom)
> Fix user.c CommandCounterIncrement (Tom)
> Fix for AM/PM boundary problem in to_char() (Karel Zak)
> Fix TIME aggregate handling (Tom)
> Fix to_char() to avoid coredump on NULL input (Tom)
> Buffer fix (Tom)
> Fix for inserting/copying longer multibyte strings into char() data
> types (Tatsuo)
> Fix for crash of backend, on abort (Tom)
>
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