
Its now been a month since the release of v6.5, and the PostgreSQL Global
Development Group is pleased to announce the release of v6.5.1, which is
focused on addressing any bugs or issues post-release:

       Fix for datetime constant problem on some platforms(Thomas)
       Add NT README file
       Portability fixes for linux_ppc, Irix, linux_alpha, OpenBSD, alpha
       Remove QUERY_LIMIT, use SELECT...LIMIT
       Fix for EXPLAIN on inheritance(Tom)
       Patch to allow vacuum on multi-segment tables(Hiroshi)
       R-Tree optimizer selectivity fix(Tom)
       ACL file descriptor leak fix(Atsushi Ogawa)
       New expresssion subtree code(Tom)
       Avoid disk writes for read-only transactions(Vadim)
       Fix for removal of temp tables if last transaction was aborted(Bruce)
       Fix to prevent too large tuple from being created(Bruce)
       plpgsql fixes
       Allow port numbers 32k - 64k(Bruce)
       Add ^ precedence(Bruce)
       Rename sort files called pg_temp to pg_sorttemp(Bruce)
       Fix for microseconds in time values(Tom)
       Tutorial source cleanup
       New linux_m68k port
       Fix for sorting of NULL's in some cases(Tom)
       Shared library dependencies fixed (Tom)
       Fixed glitches affecting GROUP BY in subselects(Tom)
       Fix some compiler warnings (Tomoaki Nishiyama)
       Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal)

This release is the latest, stable release of PostgreSQL, and is available
at:

	ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql-6.5.1.tar.gz


Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 


Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:15:23 -0300 (ADT)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
PostgreSQL 6.5.1 Released ...