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>Release date: </B
>2008-09-22</P
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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.13.
   For information about new features in the 8.1 major release, see
   <A
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>    A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X.
    However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.1.2,
    see <A
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>      Widen local lock counters from 32 to 64 bits (Tom)
     </P
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>      This responds to reports that the counters could overflow in
      sufficiently long transactions, leading to unexpected <SPAN
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      already held"</SPAN
> errors.
     </P
></LI
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>      Fix possible duplicate output of tuples during a GiST index scan (Teodor)
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>      Add checks in executor startup to ensure that the tuples produced by an
      <TT
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>INSERT</TT
> or <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>UPDATE</TT
> will match the target table's
      current rowtype (Tom)
     </P
><P
>      <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>ALTER COLUMN TYPE</TT
>, followed by re-use of a previously
      cached plan, could produce this type of situation.  The check protects
      against data corruption and/or crashes that could ensue.
     </P
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>      Fix <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>AT TIME ZONE</TT
> to first try to interpret its timezone
      argument as a timezone abbreviation, and only try it as a full timezone
      name if that fails, rather than the other way around as formerly (Tom)
     </P
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>      The timestamp input functions have always resolved ambiguous zone names
      in this order.  Making <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>AT TIME ZONE</TT
> do so as well improves
      consistency, and fixes a compatibility bug introduced in 8.1:
      in ambiguous cases we now behave the same as 8.0 and before did,
      since in the older versions <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>AT TIME ZONE</TT
> accepted
      <SPAN
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CLASS="EMPHASIS"
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></SPAN
> abbreviations.
     </P
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>      Fix datetime input functions to correctly detect integer overflow when
      running on a 64-bit platform (Tom)
     </P
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>      Improve performance of writing very long log messages to syslog (Tom)
     </P
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>      Fix bug in backwards scanning of a cursor on a <TT
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>SELECT DISTINCT
      ON</TT
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>      Fix planner bug with nested sub-select expressions (Tom)
     </P
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>      If the outer sub-select has no direct dependency on the parent query,
      but the inner one does, the outer value might not get recalculated
      for new parent query rows.
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>      Fix planner to estimate that <TT
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>GROUP BY</TT
> expressions yielding
      boolean results always result in two groups, regardless of the
      expressions' contents (Tom)
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>      This is very substantially more accurate than the regular <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>GROUP
      BY</TT
> estimate for certain boolean tests like <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>col</I
></TT
>
      <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>IS NULL</TT
>.
     </P
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>      Fix PL/pgSQL to not fail when a <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>FOR</TT
> loop's target variable
      is a record containing composite-type fields (Tom)
     </P
></LI
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>      Fix PL/Tcl to behave correctly with Tcl 8.5, and to be more careful
      about the encoding of data sent to or from Tcl (Tom)
     </P
></LI
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>      Fix PL/Python to work with Python 2.5
     </P
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>      This is a back-port of fixes made during the 8.2 development cycle.
     </P
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>      Improve <SPAN
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>pg_dump</SPAN
> and <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>pg_restore</SPAN
>'s
      error reporting after failure to send a SQL command (Tom)
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>      Fix <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>pg_ctl</SPAN
> to properly preserve postmaster
      command-line arguments across a <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>restart</TT
> (Bruce)
     </P
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>      Update time zone data files to <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>tzdata</SPAN
> release 2008f (for
      DST law changes in Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Mauritius, Morocco,
      Pakistan, Palestine, and Paraguay)
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