Release date: 2007-01-08
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2. For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see Section E.229.
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.
      Fix crash with SELECT ... LIMIT ALL (also
      LIMIT NULL) (Tom)
     
      Several /contrib/tsearch2 fixes (Teodor)
     
On Windows, make log messages coming from the operating system use ASCII encoding (Hiroshi Saito)
This fixes a conversion problem when there is a mismatch between the encoding of the operating system and database server.
      Fix Windows linking of pg_dump using
      win32.mak
      (Hiroshi Saito)
     
Fix planner mistakes for outer join queries (Tom)
Fix several problems in queries involving sub-SELECTs (Tom)
Fix potential crash in SPI during subtransaction abort (Tom)
This affects all PL functions since they all use SPI.
Improve build speed of PDF documentation (Peter)
Re-add JST (Japan) timezone abbreviation (Tom)
Improve optimization decisions related to index scans (Tom)
      Have psql print multi-byte combining characters as
      before, rather than output as \u (Tom)
     
Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
      This improves psql \d performance also.
     
      Make pg_dumpall assume that databases have public
      CONNECT privilege, when dumping from a pre-8.2 server (Tom)
     
      This preserves the previous behavior that anyone can connect to a
      database if allowed by pg_hba.conf.