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# E.77. Release 7.3.3

> Release date: 2003-05-22

This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.3.2.

## E.77.1. Migration to Version 7.3.3

A dump/restore is not required for those running version 7.3.*.

## E.77.2. Changes

- Repair sometimes-incorrect computation of StartUpID after a crash

- Avoid slowness with lots of deferred triggers in one transaction (Stephan)

- Don't lock referenced row when `UPDATE` doesn't change foreign key's value (Jan)

- Use `-fPIC` not `-fpic` on Sparc (Tom Callaway)

- Repair lack of schema-awareness in contrib/reindexdb

- Fix contrib/intarray error for zero-element result array (Teodor)

- Ensure createuser script will exit on control-C (Oliver)

- Fix errors when the type of a dropped column has itself been dropped

- `CHECKPOINT` does not cause database panic on failure in noncritical steps

- Accept 60 in seconds fields of timestamp, time, interval input values

- Issue notice, not error, if `TIMESTAMP`, `TIME`, or `INTERVAL` precision too large

- Fix `abstime-to-time` cast function (fix is not applied unless you initdb)

- Fix pg_proc entry for `timestampt_izone` (fix is not applied unless you initdb)

- Make `EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM timestamp without time zone)` treat input as local time

- `'now'::timestamptz` gave wrong answer if timezone changed earlier in transaction

- `HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP` code for time with timezone overwrote its input

- Accept `GLOBAL TEMP/TEMPORARY` as a synonym for `TEMPORARY`

- Avoid improper schema-privilege-check failure in foreign-key triggers

- Fix bugs in foreign-key triggers for `SET DEFAULT` action

- Fix incorrect time-qual check in row fetch for `UPDATE` and `DELETE` triggers

- Foreign-key clauses were parsed but ignored in `ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN`

- Fix createlang script breakage for case where handler function already exists

- Fix misbehavior on zero-column tables in pg_dump, COPY, ANALYZE, other places

- Fix misbehavior of `func_error()` on type names containing '%'

- Fix misbehavior of `replace()` on strings containing '%'

- Regular-expression patterns containing certain multibyte characters failed

- Account correctly for `NULL`s in more cases in join size estimation

- Avoid conflict with system definition of `isblank()` function or macro

- Fix failure to convert large code point values in EUC_TW conversions (Tatsuo)

- Fix error recovery for `SSL_read`/`SSL_write` calls

- Don't do early constant-folding of type coercion expressions

- Validate page header fields immediately after reading in any page

- Repair incorrect check for ungrouped variables in unnamed joins

- Fix buffer overrun in `to_ascii` (Guido Notari)

- contrib/ltree fixes (Teodor)

- Fix core dump in deadlock detection on machines where char is unsigned

- Avoid running out of buffers in many-way indexscan (bug introduced in 7.3)

- Fix planner's selectivity estimation functions to handle domains properly

- Fix dbmirror memory-allocation bug (Steven Singer)

- Prevent infinite loop in `ln(numeric)` due to roundoff error

- `GROUP BY` got confused if there were multiple equal GROUP BY items

- Fix bad plan when inherited `UPDATE`/`DELETE` references another inherited table

- Prevent clustering on incomplete (partial or non-NULL-storing) indexes

- Service shutdown request at proper time if it arrives while still starting up

- Fix left-links in temporary indexes (could make backwards scans miss entries)

- Fix incorrect handling of client_encoding setting in postgresql.conf (Tatsuo)

- Fix failure to respond to `pg_ctl stop -m fast` after Async_NotifyHandler runs

- Fix SPI for case where rule contains multiple statements of the same type

- Fix problem with checking for wrong type of access privilege in rule query

- Fix problem with `EXCEPT` in `CREATE RULE`

- Prevent problem with dropping temp tables having serial columns

- Fix replace_vars_with_subplan_refs failure in complex views

- Fix regexp slowness in single-byte encodings (Tatsuo)

- Allow qualified type names in `CREATE CAST` and `DROP CAST`

- Accept `SETOF type[]`, which formerly had to be written `SETOF _type`

- Fix pg_dump core dump in some cases with procedural languages

- Force ISO datestyle in pg_dump output, for portability (Oliver)

- pg_dump failed to handle error return from `lo_read` (Oleg Drokin)

- pg_dumpall failed with groups having no members (Nick Eskelinen)

- pg_dumpall failed to recognize --globals-only switch

- pg_restore failed to restore blobs if -X disable-triggers is specified

- Repair intrafunction memory leak in plpgsql

- pltcl's `elog` command dumped core if given wrong parameters (Ian Harding)

- plpython used wrong value of `atttypmod` (Brad McLean)

- Fix improper quoting of boolean values in Python interface (D'Arcy)

- Added `addDataType()` method to PGConnection interface for JDBC

- Fixed various problems with updateable ResultSets for JDBC (Shawn Green)

- Fixed various problems with DatabaseMetaData for JDBC (Kris Jurka, Peter Royal)

- Fixed problem with parsing table ACLs in JDBC

- Better error message for character set conversion problems in JDBC

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