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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.6.
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>Fix potential crash in <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SET
SESSION AUTHORIZATION</TT
> (CVE-2006-0553)</P
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>An unprivileged user could crash the server process, resulting in
momentary denial of service to other users, if the server has been compiled
with Asserts enabled (which is not the default).
Thanks to Akio Ishida for reporting this problem.</P
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>Fix bug with row visibility logic in self-inserted
rows (Tom)</P
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>Under rare circumstances a row inserted by the current command
could be seen as already valid, when it should not be.  Repairs bug
created in 8.0.4, 7.4.9, and 7.3.11 releases.</P
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>Fix race condition that could lead to <SPAN
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exists"</SPAN
> errors during pg_clog and pg_subtrans file creation
(Tom)</P
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>Fix cases that could lead to crashes if a cache-invalidation
message arrives at just the wrong time (Tom)</P
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>Properly check <TT
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>DOMAIN</TT
> constraints for
<TT
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>UNKNOWN</TT
> parameters in prepared statements
(Neil)</P
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>Ensure <TT
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>ALTER COLUMN TYPE</TT
> will process
<TT
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>FOREIGN KEY</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>UNIQUE</TT
>, and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>PRIMARY KEY</TT
>
constraints in the proper order (Nakano Yoshihisa)</P
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>Fixes to allow restoring dumps that have cross-schema
references to custom operators or operator classes (Tom)</P
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>Allow <SPAN
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<TT
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<TT
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>Fix <SPAN
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>unregister</TT
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when the  data directory is not specified (Magnus)</P
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>Fix <SPAN
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(Neil)</P
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>Recover properly if error occurs during argument passing
in <SPAN
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>Fix <SPAN
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Win32 to match the backend (Andrew)</P
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>Fix crash when <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>log_min_messages</TT
> is set to
<TT
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>DEBUG3</TT
> or above in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>postgresql.conf</TT
> on Win32
(Bruce)</P
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>Fix <SPAN
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>pgxs</SPAN
> <TT
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>-L</TT
> library path
specification for Win32, Cygwin, OS X, AIX (Bruce)</P
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>Check that SID is enabled while checking for Win32 admin
privileges (Magnus)</P
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>Properly reject out-of-range date inputs (Kris
Jurka)</P
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>Portability fix for testing presence of <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>finite</CODE
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and <CODE
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>isinf</CODE
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