Historical version. PostgreSQL 7.4 has reached end of support. See the current manual.
E.59. Release 7.2.3
Release date: 2002-10-01
This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.2, including fixes to prevent possible data loss.
E.59.1. Migration to Version 7.2.3
A dump/restore is not required for those running version 7.2.*.
E.59.2. Changes
Prevent possible compressed transaction log loss (Tom)
Prevent non-superuser from increasing most recent vacuum info (Tom)
Handle pre-1970 date values in newer versions of glibc (Tom)
Fix possible hang during server shutdown
Prevent spinlock hangs on SMP PPC machines (Tomoyuki Niijima)
Fix pg_dump to properly dump FULL JOIN USING (Tom)
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Read the upstream documentation. For corrections, first check the current manual.