Release 7.3.2

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# E.38. Release 7.3.2

> Release date: 2003-02-04

This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.3.1.

## E.38.1. Migration to version 7.3.2

A dump/restore is not required for those running version 7.3.*.

## E.38.2. Changes

- Restore creation of OID column in CREATE TABLE AS / SELECT INTO

- Fix pg_dump core dump when dumping views having comments

- Dump DEFERRABLE/INITIALLY DEFERRED constraints properly

- Fix UPDATE when child table's column numbering differs from parent

- Increase default value of max_fsm_relations

- Fix problem when fetching backwards in a cursor for a single-row query

- Make backward fetch work properly with cursor on SELECT DISTINCT query

- Fix problems with loading pg_dump files containing contrib/lo usage

- Fix problem with all-numeric user names

- Fix possible memory leak and core dump during disconnect in libpgtcl

- Make plpython's spi_execute command handle nulls properly (Andrew Bosma)

- Adjust plpython error reporting so that its regression test passes again

- Work with bison 1.875

- Handle mixed-case names properly in plpgsql's %type (Neil)

- Fix core dump in pltcl when executing a query rewritten by a rule

- Repair array subscript overruns (per report from Yichen Xie)

- Reduce MAX_TIME_PRECISION from 13 to 10 in floating-point case

- Correctly case-fold variable names in per-database and per-user settings

- Fix coredump in plpgsql's RETURN NEXT when SELECT into record returns no rows

- Fix outdated use of pg_type.typprtlen in python client interface

- Correctly handle fractional seconds in timestamps in JDBC driver

- Improve performance of getImportedKeys() in JDBC

- Make shared-library symlinks work standardly on HPUX (Giles)

- Repair inconsistent rounding behavior for timestamp, time, interval

- SSL negotiation fixes (Nathan Mueller)

- Make libpq's ~/.pgpass feature work when connecting with PQconnectDB

- Update my2pg, ora2pg

- Translation updates

- Add casts between types lo and oid in contrib/lo

- fastpath code now checks for privilege to call function

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