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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.4.20.
   For information about new features in the 8.4 major release, see
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>    A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.4.X.
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>      Restore GIN metapages unconditionally to avoid torn-page risk
      (Heikki Linnakangas)
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>      Although this oversight could theoretically result in a corrupted
      index, it is unlikely to have caused any problems in practice, since
      the active part of a GIN metapage is smaller than a standard 512-byte
      disk sector.
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>      Allow regular-expression operators to be terminated early by query
      cancel requests (Tom Lane)
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>      This prevents scenarios wherein a pathological regular expression
      could lock up a server process uninterruptibly for a long time.
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>      Remove incorrect code that tried to allow <TT
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      single-element row arguments (Joshua Yanovski)
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>      This code never worked correctly, and since the case is neither
      specified by the SQL standard nor documented, it seemed better to
      remove it than fix it.
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>      Avoid getting more than <TT
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      rule or view (Dean Rasheed)
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>      This oversight resulted in <SPAN
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>      Prevent interrupts while reporting non-<TT
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>      This guards against rare server-process freezeups due to recursive
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      for DST law changes in Fiji and Turkey, plus historical changes in
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