E.163. Release 8.1.6 #
Release date: 2007-01-08
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.5. For information about new features in the 8.1 major release, see 第 E.169 节.
E.163.1. Migration to Version 8.1.6
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X. However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.1.2, see 第 E.167 节.
E.163.2. Changes
Improve handling of
getaddrinfo()on AIX (Tom)This fixes a problem with starting the statistics collector, among other things.
Fix pg_restore to handle a tar-format backup that contains large objects (blobs) with comments (Tom)
Fix “failed to re-find parent key” errors in
VACUUM(Tom)Clean out
pg_internal.initcache files during server restart (Simon)This avoids a hazard that the cache files might contain stale data after PITR recovery.
Fix race condition for truncation of a large relation across a gigabyte boundary by
VACUUM(Tom)Fix bug causing needless deadlock errors on row-level locks (Tom)
Fix bugs affecting multi-gigabyte hash indexes (Tom)
Fix possible deadlock in Windows signal handling (Teodor)
Fix error when constructing an
ARRAY[]made up of multiple empty elements (Tom)Fix ecpg memory leak during connection (Michael)
Fix for Darwin (OS X) compilation (Tom)
to_number()andto_char(numeric)are nowSTABLE, notIMMUTABLE, for new initdb installs (Tom)This is because
lc_numericcan potentially change the output of these functions.Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
This improves psql
\dperformance also.Update timezone database
This affects Australian and Canadian daylight-savings rules in particular.