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Release 6.5.1

Migration to v6.5.1

Detailed Change List

Release 6.5

Migration to v6.5

Multi-Version Concurrency Control

Detailed Change List

Postgres95 Beta 0.01

Release 6.5.1

This is basically a cleanup release for 6.5. We have fixed a

variety of problems reported by 6.5 users.

Migration to v6.5.1

A dump/restore is not required for those running 6.5.

Detailed Change List

Fix for datetime constant problem on some platforms(Thomas)

Add NT README file

Portability fixes for linux_ppc, Irix, linux_alpha, OpenBSD, alpha

Remove QUERY_LIMIT, use SELECT...LIMIT

Fix for EXPLAIN on inheritance(Tom)

Patch to allow vacuum on multi-segment tables(Hiroshi)

R-Tree optimizer selectivity fix(Tom)

ACL file descriptor leak fix(Atsushi Ogawa)

New expresssion subtree code(Tom)

Avoid disk writes for read-only transactions(Vadim)

Fix for removal of temp tables if last transaction was aborted(Bruce)

Fix to prevent too large tuple from being created(Bruce)

plpgsql fixes

Allow port numbers 32k - 64k(Bruce)

Add ^ precedence(Bruce)

Rename sort files called pg_temp to pg_sorttemp(Bruce)

Fix for microseconds in time values(Tom)

Tutorial source cleanup

New linux_m68k port

Fix for sorting of NULL's in some cases(Tom)

Shared library dependencies fixed (Tom)

Fixed glitches affecting GROUP BY in subselects(Tom)

Fix some compiler warnings (Tomoaki Nishiyama)

Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)

Release 6.5

This release marks a major step in the development team's mastery

Detailed Change List

Bug Fixes

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Fix text<->float8 and text<->float4 conversion functions(Thomas)

leak(Tom)

New install commands for plpgsql(Jan)

Release 6.4.2

The 6.4.1 release was improperly packaged. This also has one