Release 7.3.1
A.4. Release 7.3.1
Release date: 2002-12-18
This has a variety of fixes from 7.3.
A.4.1. Migration to version 7.3.1
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3. However, it should be noted that the main PostgreSQL interface library, libpq, has a new major version number for this release, which will require that client code using libpq be relinked.
A.4.2. Changes
Fix a core dump of COPY TO when client/server encodings don't match
(Tom)
Allow pg_dump to work with pre-7.2 servers (Philip)
contrib/adddepend fixes (Tom)
Fix problem with deletion of per-user/per-database config settings
(Tom)
contrib/vacuumlo fix (Tom)
Allow 'password' encryption even when pg_shadow contains MD5 passwords
(Bruce)
contrib/dbmirror fix (Steven Singer)
Optimizer fixes (Tom)
contrib/tsearch fixes (Teodor Sigaev, Magnus)
Fix encoding name resolution to work in Turkish locale (Nicolai Tufar)
Increment libpq library's major version number (Bruce)
pg_hba.conf error reporting fixes (Bruce, Neil)
Add SCO OpenServer 5.0.4 as a supported platform (Bruce)
Prevent EXPLAIN from crashing server (Tom)
SSL fixes (Nathan Mueller)
Prevent composite column creation via ALTER TABLE (Tom)
Fix conversion between LATIN9 and UNICODE (Peter)
Translation updates