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> This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.3.20.
For information about new features in the 8.3 major release, see
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> The <SPAN
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for the 8.3.X release series in February 2013.
Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
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> A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.3.X.
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> However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.3.17,
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> Improve page-splitting decisions in GiST indexes (Alexander Korotkov,
Robert Haas, Tom Lane)
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> Multi-column GiST indexes might suffer unexpected bloat due to this
error.
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> Fix cascading privilege revoke to stop if privileges are still held
(Tom Lane)
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> If we revoke a grant option from some role <TT
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> still holds that option via a grant from someone
else, we should not recursively revoke the corresponding privilege
from role(s) <TT
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><I
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></TT
> that <TT
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><I
>X</I
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> had granted it
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> Fix handling of <TT
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>SIGFPE</TT
> when PL/Perl is in use (Andres Freund)
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> Perl resets the process's <TT
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>SIGFPE</TT
> handler to
<TT
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>SIG_IGN</TT
>, which could result in crashes later on. Restore
the normal Postgres signal handler after initializing PL/Perl.
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> Prevent PL/Perl from crashing if a recursive PL/Perl function is
redefined while being executed (Tom Lane)
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> Work around possible misoptimization in PL/Perl (Tom Lane)
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> Some Linux distributions contain an incorrect version of
<TT
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PL/Perl, leading to crashes if a PL/Perl function calls another one
that throws an error.
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> Update time zone data files to <SPAN
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for DST law changes in Fiji
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