postgresql-8.0 8.0.6-1 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

postgresql-8.0 (8.0.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * New upstream bugfix release:
    - Fix bug introduced in 8.0 that could allow ReadBuffer to return an
      already-used page as new, potentially causing loss of
      recently-committed data.
    - 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 already checks this condition and aborts on it.)
    - Allow more flexible relocation of installation directories.
      Previous releases supported relocation only if all installation
      directory paths were the same except for the last component.
      (This makes the test suite work with Debian's directory structure, so
      that the horology test can find the timezones again and pass.)
    - Fix longstanding bug in strpos() and regular expression handling in
      certain rarely used Asian multi-byte character sets.
    - Various fixes for functions returning RECORDs.
    - 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.
  * Remove debian/patches/11-testsuite-ignore-horology.patch: Obsolete,
    horology test should now work.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>  Mon,  9 Jan 2006 19:00:55 +0100