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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.17.
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>    A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X.
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>      Widen local lock counters from 32 to 64 bits (Tom)
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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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>      Add checks in executor startup to ensure that the tuples produced by an
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      current rowtype (Tom)
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>      <TT
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      cached plan, could produce this type of situation.  The check protects
      against data corruption and/or crashes that could ensue.
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>      Fix datetime input functions to correctly detect integer overflow when
      running on a 64-bit platform (Tom)
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>      Improve performance of writing very long log messages to syslog (Tom)
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>      Fix bug in backwards scanning of a cursor on a <TT
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>      Fix planner to estimate that <TT
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      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
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      BY</TT
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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)
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>      Fix PL/Python to work with Python 2.5
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>      This is a back-port of fixes made during the 8.2 development cycle.
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>      Improve <SPAN
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>      Fix <SPAN
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      command-line arguments across a <TT
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>      Update time zone data files to <SPAN
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      DST law changes in Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Mauritius, Morocco,
      Pakistan, Palestine, and Paraguay)
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