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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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> The <SPAN
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for the 8.4.X release series in July 2014.
Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
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> A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.4.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 uninterruptably 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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>AccessShareLock</TT
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rule or view (Dean Rasheed)
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> This oversight resulted in <SPAN
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acquiring <TT
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the targets of <TT
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concurrent transactions that tried to acquire, for example,
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> Prevent interrupts while reporting non-<TT
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(Tom Lane)
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> This guards against rare server-process freezeups due to recursive
entry to <CODE
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> Update time zone data files to <SPAN
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for DST law changes in Fiji and Turkey, plus historical changes in
Israel and Ukraine.
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