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# A.2. Release 7.3.3

> Release date: 2003-05-22

This has a variety of fixes from 7.3.2.

## A.2.1. Migration to version 7.3.3

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

## A.2.2. 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 timestamptz_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-permissions-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 NULLs 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 permission 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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