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Update release notes for 7.4.3.

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<appendix id="release">
<title>Release Notes</title>
<sect1 id="release-7-4-3">
<title>Release 7.4.3</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2004-06-14</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.2.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to version 7.4.3</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<para>
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Fix temporary memory leak when using hashed aggregates (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Ecpg fixes, including those for Informix compatibility (Michael)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fixes for compiling with thread-safety, particularly Solaris (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix error in termination of COPY IN mode when using old protocol (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Several pg_autovacuum fixes, including fixes for large oids, stability, temp tables, and debug fixes (Matthew T. O'Connor)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix problem with reading tar pg_dump's on NetBSD and BSD/OS (Bruce)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Several JDBC fixes</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for ALTER SEQUENCE RESTART where last_value was equals restart value (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Support FULL JOIN with no join clauses, such as X FULL JOIN Y ON TRUE (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix a zero-column bug (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Improve handling of non-qualitified identifiers in GROUP BY clauses (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Do not allow NATURAL CROSS JOIN (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add missing check for invalid protocol packet length in binary COPY (Tom)</para></listitem>
<para>
This fixes a difficult-to-exploit security hole.
</para>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-4-2">
<title>Release 7.4.2</title>
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</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Have <command>COMMENT ON DATABASE</command> on nonlocal database generate a warning (Rod)</para>
<para>
Have <command>COMMENT ON DATABASE</command> on nonlocal
database generate a warning, rather than an error (Rod)
</para>
<para>
Database comments are stored in database-local tables so
comments on a database have to be stored in each database.
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<listitem>
<para>
New function <function>pg_get_triggerdef(prettyprint)</function>
and <function>pg_constraint_is_visible()</function>
New functions <function>pg_get_triggerdef(prettyprint)</function>
and <function>pg_conversion_is_visible()</function> (Christopher)
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Make <function>pg_get_constraintdef</function> to support
Make <function>pg_get_constraintdef</function> support
unique, primary-key, and check constraints (Christopher)
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
The Python language no longer supports a restricted execution
environment, so the trusted version of PL/Python was removed. If
this situation changes, a version of PL/python that can be used
this situation changes, a version of PL/Python that can be used
by non-superusers will be readded.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
<command>\encoding</> now changes based on the server parameter
<varname>client_encoding server</varname> (Tom)
<varname>client_encoding</varname> (Tom)
</para>
<para>
In previous versions, <command>\encoding</command> was not aware
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<listitem>
<para>
Improve performance of function <function>PGunescapeBytea</function> (Ben Lamb)
Improve performance of function <function>PQunescapeBytea</function> (Ben Lamb)
</para>
</listitem>