This directory contains unofficial patches for PostgreSQL 6.5.3. The patches below have been combined into "jumbo.patch" for your convenience. "postgresql-6.5.3-patched.tar.gz" is postgresql-6.5.3 + jumbo.patch. -- Tatsuo Ishii t-ishii@sra.co.jp 1. rtree.patch.gz fix for rtree 2. lock.patch.gz It has been observed that random backend crash occurs under high load. The patches should fix the problem. Note that Linux does not have the problem at all. It is known that at least FreeBSD has the problem. 3. xid.patch.gz patches to fix: NOTICE: LockRelease: locktable lookup failed, no lock messages. 4. ecpg.patch.gz fix for ecpg 5. vacuum.patch.gz vacuum analyze fails with too big tupple. 6. date.patch.gz select '12-01-1999'::datetime + '@ 1 month - 1 sec' ; Thu Dec 30 23:59:59 1999 EST 7. remove_prosrc_idx_6.5.2.diff obtained from ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/patches/v6.5/ 8. nameerr.patch.gz fix initdb failure on LinuxSparc 9. passwd.patch.gz fix file descriptor leak while flat passwd authenticatin 10. user.patch.gz fix file descriptor leak while create user 11. movein.diff.gz fix data loss with vauum 12. conv.c-6.5.3.patch.gz MB related security fix