The powerful, open-source RDBMS has got a new development version. This version, PostgreSQL 9.2 Beta 3 comes with many bug fixes and increase in performance and scalability. Some of the major changes are:
- Multiple documentation updates
- Apply translation updates
- Fixes to transaction log and replication issues with SP-GiST
- Replace libpq's "row processor" API with a "single row" mode.
- Fix WITH issue with set operations (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT)
- Improvements to Autovacuum cancellation
- Multiple pg_upgrade fixes
- Fix memory leak in pg_recievexlog
- Restore statistics collection broken by change to bgwriter
- Prevent corner-case coredump with rfree().
The release is available for download from this page. Upgrade instructions are present here.
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