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# E.189. Release 6.5.2

> Release date: 1999-09-15

This is basically a cleanup release for 6.5.1. We have fixed a variety of problems reported by 6.5.1 users.

## E.189.1. Migration to Version 6.5.2

A dump/restore is not required for those running 6.5.*.

## E.189.2. Changes

    subselect+CASE fixes(Tom)
    Add SHLIB_LINK setting for solaris_i386 and solaris_sparc ports(Daren Sefcik)
    Fixes for CASE in WHERE join clauses(Tom)
    Fix BTScan abort(Tom)
    Repair the check for redundant UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY indexes(Thomas)
    Improve it so that it checks for multicolumn constraints(Thomas)
    Fix for Windows making problem with MB enabled(Hiroki Kataoka)
    Allow BSD yacc and bison to compile pl code(Bruce)
    Fix SET NAMES working
    int8 fixes(Thomas)
    Fix vacuum's memory consumption(Hiroshi,Tatsuo)
    Reduce the total memory consumption of vacuum(Tom)
    Fix for timestamp(datetime)
    Rule deparsing bugfixes(Tom)
    Fix quoting problems in mkMakefile.tcldefs.sh.in and mkMakefile.tkdefs.sh.in(Tom)
    This is to re-use space on index pages freed by vacuum(Vadim)
    document -x for pg_dump(Bruce)
    Fix for unary operators in rule deparser(Tom)
    Comment out FileUnlink of excess segments during mdtruncate()(Tom)
    IRIX linking fix from Yu Cao >yucao@falcon.kla-tencor.com<
    Repair logic error in LIKE: should not return LIKE_ABORT
      when reach end of pattern before end of text(Tom)
    Repair incorrect cleanup of heap memory allocation during transaction abort(Tom)
    Updated version of pgaccess 0.98

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