E.7. Release 7.3.1

E.7.1. Migration to version 7.3.1

A dump/restore is not required for those running version 7.3. However, it should be noted that the main PostgreSQL interface library, libpq, has a new major version number for this release, which may require recompilation of client code in certain cases.

E.7.2. 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)
• Allow locale names to be mixed case (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)