postgresql-7.4 1:7.4.11-1 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

postgresql-7.4 (1:7.4.11-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream bugfix release:
    - Fix for protocol-level Describe messages issued outside a
      transaction or in a failed transaction.
    - Fix character string comparison for locales that consider different
      character combinations as equal, such as Hungarian. This might require
      "REINDEX" to fix existing indexes on textual columns.
    - Set locale environment variables during postmaster startup to
      ensure that plperl won't change the locale later.
      This fixes a problem that occurred if the postmaster was started
      with environment variables specifying a different locale than what
      initdb had been told. Under these conditions, any use of plperl was
      likely to lead to corrupt indexes. You may need "REINDEX" to fix
      existing indexes on textual columns if this has happened to you.
      (postgresql-common checks and aborts on this condition.)
    - Fix longstanding bug in strpos() and regular expression handling in
      certain rarely used Asian multi-byte character sets.
    - Fix bug in "/contrib/pgcrypto" gen_salt, which caused it not to use
      all available salt space for MD5 and XDES algorithms. Salts for Blowfish
      and standard DES are unaffected.
    - Fix "/contrib/dblink" to throw an error, rather than crashing, when
      the number of columns specified is different from what's actually
      returned by the query.
  * Add debian/patches/53_testsuite-ignore-horology.patch: New upstream
    version has the horology test now which fails on the buildds for known
    reasons. 8.0 fix for make_relative_path is not easy to backport, so ignore
    this failure for 7.4.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>  Mon,  9 Jan 2006 19:16:30 +0100