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5+ Release 7.0.1
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9+ Migration to v7.0.1
10+
11+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.0.
12+
13+ Changes
14+ -------
15+ Fix many CLUSTER failures (Tom)
16+ Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME works on indexes (Tom)
17+ Fix plpgsql to handle datetime->timestamp and timespan->interval (Bruce)
18+ New configure --with-setproctitle switch to use setproctitle() (Marc, Bruce)
19+ Fix the off by one errors in ResultSet from 6.5.3, and more.
20+ jdbc ResultSet fixes (Joseph Shraibman)
21+ optimizer tunings (Tom)
22+ Fix create user for pgaccess
23+ Fix for UNLISTEN failure
24+ IRIX fixes (David Kaelbling)
25+ QNX fixes (Andreas Kardos)
26+ Reduce COPY IN lock level (Tom)
27+ Change libpqeasy to use PQconnectdb() style parameters (Bruce)
28+ Fix pg_dump to handle OID indexes (Tom)
29+ Fix small memory leak (Tom)
30+ Solaris fix for createdb/dropdb
31+ Fix for non-blocking connections (Alfred Perlstein)
32+ Fix improper recovery after RENAME TABLE failures (Tom)
33+ Copy pg_ident.conf.sample into /lib directory in install (Bruce)
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541Release 7.0
642
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3571 data from any previous release. For those upgrading from 6.5.*, you
3672 can use pg_upgrade to upgrade to this release.
3773
38- Detailed Change List
74+
3975Bug Fixes
4076---------
4177Prevent function calls with more than maximum number of arguments (Tom)
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372412
373413A dump/restore is not required for those running 6.5.*.
374414
375- Detailed Change List
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415+ Changes
416+ -------
377417Updated version of pgaccess 0.98
378418NT-specific patch
379419
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381422 Release 6.5.2
382423 Release Notes
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391432
392433A dump/restore is not required for those running 6.5.*.
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394- Detailed Change List
395-
435+ Changes
436+ -------
396437subselect+CASE fixes(Tom)
397438Add SHLIB_LINK setting for solaris_i386 and solaris_sparc ports(Daren Sefcik)
398439Fixes for CASE in WHERE join clauses(Tom)
@@ -418,6 +459,7 @@ Repair logic error in LIKE: should not return LIKE_ABORT
418459Repair incorrect cleanup of heap memory allocation during transaction abort(Tom)
419460Updated version of pgaccess 0.98
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423465 Release Notes
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432474
433475A dump/restore is not required for those running 6.5.
434476
435- Detailed Change List
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477+ Changes
478+ -------
437479Add NT README file
438480Portability fixes for linux_ppc, Irix, linux_alpha, OpenBSD, alpha
439481Remove QUERY_LIMIT, use SELECT...LIMIT
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458500Fix some compiler warnings (Tomoaki Nishiyama)
459501Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)
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576619dirty (uncommitted) data (regardless of isolation level) and true
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760802Fix for datetime constant problem on some platforms(Thomas)
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819+ Changes
820+ -------
778821Add pg_dump -N flag to force double quotes around identifiers. This is
779822 the default(Thomas)
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1452- Detailed Change List
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1454- Changes in this release
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1497+ Changes
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14561499Allow TIME and TYPE column names(Thomas)
14571500Allow larger range of true/false as boolean values(Thomas)
14581501Support output of "now" and "current"(Thomas)
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14651508Documented new libpq function to return affected rows, PQcmdTuples(Bruce)
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1615- Detailed Change List
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1617- Changes in this release
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1660+ Changes
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16191662fix for SET with options (Thomas)
16201663allow pg_dump/pg_dumpall to preserve ownership of all tables/objects(Bruce)
16211664new psql \connect option allows changing usernames without changing databases
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