Mark Dastmalchi-Round

Mark Dastmalchi-Round

I’m a DevOps architect, musician, animal lover and all-round geek. If it’s got shiny lights on it, makes loud noises or purrs/wags its tail when you stroke it, I’m all for it. When I’m not writing code or fiddling with computers for a living, I provide the low-end rumble for my band in West Sussex.

PostgreSQL 8.1.2 now in “unstable”

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New PostgreSQL and related packages (postgresql, libpq and postgresqlcontrib) have been released to the “unstable” tree. These packages bump the version to 8.1.2, and include a number of important bug fixes. Of particular importance is the resolution of a bug present in previous versions of PostgreSQL that could lead to data loss - for more details, please see the 8.1.2 release announcment.

This page may contain outdated information and/or broken links. It is included on this site in an effort to preserve historical information only.

A dump/restore is not required for those already running 8.1.x, unless you are affected by the locale or plperl issues described in the release notes.

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