Re: New News Entry

Activated with minor copy-editing.  Also deactivated 7.3.5 news item.

Robert Treat

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 10:11, World Wide Web Owner wrote:
> A new entry has been added to the news database.
>
> Database Admin: http://www.postgresql.org/admin/edit_news.php?172
>
> Submitted by: press@postgresql.org
> Headline: PostgreSQL 7.3.6 Update Released
> Summary:
>
> After several fixes were backpatches to the 7_3_STABLE branch, we have now
> released a 7.3.6.
>
> Story:
>
> After several fixes were backpatches to the 7_3_STABLE branch, we have now
> released a 7.3.6.  As the list of Changes since 7.3.5 is quite small, they
> are included in this email:
>
>      * Revert erroneous changes in rule permissions checking
>      * Repair incorrect order of operations in GetNewTransactionId()
>      * Ensure configure selects -fno-strict-aliasing even when an
>        external value for CFLAGS is supplied
>      * Make pg_restore handle 64-bit off_t correctly
>      * Make contrib/dblink not assume that local and remote type OIDs
>        match (Joe)
>      * Quote connectby()\'s start_with argument properly (Joe)
>      * Don\'t crash when a rowtype argument to a plpgsql function is NULL
>      * Avoid generating invalid character encoding sequences in corner
>        cases when planning LIKE operations
>      * Ensure text_position() cannot scan past end of source string in
>        multibyte cases (Korea PostgreSQL Users\' Group)
>      * Fix index optimization and selectivity estimates for LIKE
>        operations on bytea columns (Joe)
>
> This version, as with most minor versions, does not require a dump/reload
> to put into place.
>
> As always, this release is available on all our mirrors, viable at:
>
>         http://www.postgresql.org/mirrors-www.html
>
> And, thanks to David Fetter, is also available via BitTorrent at:
>
>         http://bt.postgresql.org
>
>
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