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> This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.14.
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> A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X.
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see the release notes for 8.1.2. Also, if you were running a previous
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> Fix GiST index corruption due to marking the wrong index entry
<SPAN
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> after a deletion (Teodor)
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> This would result in index searches failing to find rows they
should have found. Corrupted indexes can be fixed with
<TT
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> Fix backend crash when the client encoding cannot represent a localized
error message (Tom)
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> We have addressed similar issues before, but it would still fail if
the <SPAN
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be converted. The fix is to disable localization and send the plain
ASCII error message when we detect such a situation.
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> Fix possible crash when deeply nested functions are invoked from
a trigger (Tom)
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> Fix mis-expansion of rule queries when a sub-<TT
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>SELECT</TT
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in a function call in <TT
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>FROM</TT
>, a multi-row <TT
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list, or a <TT
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> The usual symptom of this problem is an <SPAN
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error.
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> Ensure an error is reported when a newly-defined PL/pgSQL trigger
function is invoked as a normal function (Tom)
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> Prevent possible collision of <TT
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when moving a table to another tablespace with <TT
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TABLESPACE</TT
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> The command tried to re-use the existing filename, instead of
picking one that is known unused in the destination directory.
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> Fix incorrect tsearch2 headline generation when single query
item matches first word of text (Sushant Sinha)
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> Fix improper display of fractional seconds in interval values when
using a non-ISO datestyle in an <TT
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build (Ron Mayer)
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> Ensure <CODE
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> and <CODE
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>SPI_getbinval</CODE
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behave correctly when the passed tuple and tuple descriptor have
different numbers of columns (Tom)
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> This situation is normal when a table has had columns added or removed,
but these two functions didn't handle it properly.
The only likely consequence is an incorrect error indication.
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> Fix <SPAN
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>ecpg</SPAN
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>CREATE ROLE</TT
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> Fix recent breakage of <TT
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>pg_ctl restart</TT
> (Tom)
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> Update time zone data files to <SPAN
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>tzdata</SPAN
> release 2008i (for
DST law changes in Argentina, Brazil, Mauritius, Syria)
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