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<appendix id="release">
<title>Release Notes</title>
<sect1 id="release-8-0-10">
<title>Release 8.0.10</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2007-01-08</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.9.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to version 8.0.10</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X. However,
if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0.6, see the release
notes for 8.0.6.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve handling of <function>getaddrinfo()</> on AIX (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This fixes a problem with starting the statistics collector,
among other things.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <link linkend="SQL-VACUUM"><command>VACUUM</></link> to recover from
a rare problem during index page deletion/split (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix error when constructing an <literal>ARRAY[]</> made up of multiple
empty elements (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix ecpg memory leak during connection (Michael)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix problem with extending hash indexes that span multiple 1-gigabyte
segments (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix problem where truncation of a multi-gigabyte table might cause
consistency problems with other backends (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<function>to_number()</> and <function>to_char(numeric)</>
are now <literal>STABLE</>, not <literal>IMMUTABLE</>, for
new <link linkend="APP-INITDB"><application>initdb</></link>
installs (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This is because <link
linkend="guc-lc-numeric"><varname>lc_numeric</></link> can potentially
change the output of the functions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update timezone database, particularly for Western Australia,
which has a new daylight savings date (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Document a risk that if a row is locked inside multiple sub-transactions
in the same transaction, and a sub-transaction is rolled back, the row
lock is lost (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This improves <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> performance also.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-8-0-9">
<title>Release 8.0.9</title>
@ -3212,6 +3330,96 @@ typedefs (Michael)</para></listitem>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-4-15">
<title>Release 7.4.15</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2007-01-08</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.14.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to version 7.4.15</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X. However,
if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.11, see the release
notes for 7.4.11.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve handling of <function>getaddrinfo()</> on AIX (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This fixes a problem with starting the statistics collector,
among other things.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <link linkend="SQL-VACUUM"><command>VACUUM</></link> to recover from
a rare problem during index page deletion/split (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix error when constructing an <literal>ARRAY[]</> made up of multiple empty
elements (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix problem with extending hash indexes that span multiple 1-gigabyte
segments (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<function>to_number()</> and <function>to_char(numeric)</>
are now <literal>STABLE</>, not <literal>IMMUTABLE</>, for
new <link linkend="APP-INITDB"><application>initdb</></link>
installs (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This is because <link
linkend="guc-lc-numeric"><varname>lc_numeric</></link> can potentially
change the output of the functions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This improves <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> performance also.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-4-14">
<title>Release 7.4.14</title>
@ -6171,6 +6379,64 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE;
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-3-17">
<title>Release 7.3.17</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2007-01-08</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.3.16.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to version 7.3.17</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X. However,
if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.3.13, see the release
notes for 7.3.13.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<function>to_number()</> and <function>to_char(numeric)</>
are now <literal>STABLE</>, not <literal>IMMUTABLE</>, for
new <link linkend="APP-INITDB"><application>initdb</></link>
installs (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This is because <link
linkend="guc-lc-numeric"><varname>lc_numeric</></link> can potentially
change the output of the functions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
</para>
<para>
This improves <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> performance also.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-3-16">
<title>Release 7.3.16</title>