E.175. Release 7.4.24
Release Date: 2009-02-02
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.23. For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see Section E.199.
E.175.1. Migration to Version 7.4.24
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X. However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.11, see Section E.188.
E.175.2. Changes
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Improve handling of URLs in
headline()function (Teodor) -
Improve handling of overlength headlines in
headline()function (Teodor) -
Prevent possible Assert failure or misconversion if an encoding conversion is created with the wrong conversion function for the specified pair of encodings (Tom, Heikki)
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Avoid unnecessary locking of small tables in VACUUM (Heikki)
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Fix uninitialized variables in contrib/tsearch2's
get_covers()function (Teodor) -
Fix bug in
to_char()'s handling of TH format codes (Andreas Scherbaum) -
Make all documentation reference pgsql-bugs and/or pgsql-hackers as appropriate, instead of the now-decommissioned pgsql-ports and pgsql-patches mailing lists (Tom)