Release date: 2009-02-02
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.23. For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see Section E.278, « Release 7.4 ».
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X. However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.11, see Section E.267, « Release 7.4.11 ».
Improve handling of URLs in headline() function (Teodor)
Improve handling of overlength headlines in headline() function (Teodor)
Prevent possible Assert failure or misconversion if an encoding conversion is created with the wrong conversion function for the specified pair of encodings (Tom, Heikki)
Avoid unnecessary locking of small tables in VACUUM (Heikki)
Fix uninitialized variables in contrib/tsearch2's get_covers() function (Teodor)
Fix bug in to_char()'s handling of TH format codes (Andreas Scherbaum)
Make all documentation reference pgsql-bugs and/or pgsql-hackers as appropriate, instead of the now-decommissioned pgsql-ports and pgsql-patches mailing lists (Tom)
Release 7.4.25
