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<appendix id="release">
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</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-4-4">
<title>Release 7.4.4</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2004-08-16</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.3.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to version 7.4.4</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Prevent possible loss of committed transactions during crash</para>
<para>
Due to insufficient interlocking between transaction commit and checkpointing,
it was possible for transactions committed just before the most recent
checkpoint to be lost, in whole or in part, following a database crash and
restart. This is a serious bug that has existed
since <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 7.1.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid crash when session's current userID is deleted</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix hashed crosstab for zero-rows case (Joe)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>pg_dump handled ACLs with grant options incorrectly</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Force cache update after renaming a column in a foreign key</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Check HAVING restriction before evaluating result list of an
aggregate plan</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix thread support for OS X and Solaris</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Pretty-print UNION queries correctly</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Updated JDBC driver (build 215) with various fixes</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ECPG fixes</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Translation updates (various contributors)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<para>
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Fix temporary memory leak when using non-hashed aggregates (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ECPG fixes, including some for Informix compatibility (Michael)</para></listitem>
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</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-3-7">
<title>Release 7.3.7</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2004-08-16</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains one critical fix over 7.3.6, and some minor items.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to version 7.3.7</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Prevent possible loss of committed transactions during crash</para>
<para>
Due to insufficient interlocking between transaction commit and checkpointing,
it was possible for transactions committed just before the most recent
checkpoint to be lost, in whole or in part, following a database crash and
restart. This is a serious bug that has existed
since <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 7.1.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Remove asymmetrical word processing in tsearch (Teodor)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Properly schema-qualify function names when pg_dump'ing a CAST</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-3-6">
<title>Release 7.3.6</title>
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</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-2-5">
<title>Release 7.2.5</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2004-08-16</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.4.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to version 7.2.5</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.2.X.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Prevent possible loss of committed transactions during crash</para>
<para>
Due to insufficient interlocking between transaction commit and checkpointing,
it was possible for transactions committed just before the most recent
checkpoint to be lost, in whole or in part, following a database crash and
restart. This is a serious bug that has existed
since <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 7.1.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix corner case for btree search in parallel with first root page split</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Repair memory leaks in pg_dump</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Avoid conflict with system definition of <function>isblank()</function> function or macro</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix buffer overrun in <function>to_ascii</function> (Guido Notari)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix core dump in deadlock detection on machines where char is unsigned</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix failure to respond to <command>pg_ctl stop -m fast</command> after Async_NotifyHandler runs</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-2-4">
<title>Release 7.2.4</title>