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Release date: 2002-08-23
This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.1.
A dump/restore is not required for those running version 7.2.*.
Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/pgSQL (Tom)
Fix for compressed transaction log id wraparound (Tom)
Fix PQescapeBytea/PQunescapeBytea so that they handle bytes > 0x7f (Tatsuo)
Fix for psql and pg_dump crashing when invoked with non-existent long options (Tatsuo)
Fix crash when invoking geometric operators (Tom)
Allow OPEN cursor(args) (Tom)
Fix for rtree_gist index build (Teodor)
Fix for dumping user-defined aggregates (Tom)
contrib/intarray fixes (Oleg)
Fix for complex UNION/EXCEPT/INTERSECT queries using parens (Tom)
Fix to pg_convert (Tatsuo)
Fix for crash with long DATA strings (Thomas, Neil)
Fix for repeat(), lpad(), rpad() and long strings (Neil)