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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.4.
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>    A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X.
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>      Prevent index corruption when a transaction inserts rows and
      then aborts close to the end of a concurrent <TT
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      on the same table (Tom)
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>      Fix <TT
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      domains over domains (Tom)
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>      Make <TT
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>      Fix some planner problems with outer joins, notably poor
      size estimation for <TT
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>      Allow the <TT
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      milliseconds or microseconds (Neil)
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>      Allow timezone name to appear before the year in <TT
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>      Fixes for <ACRONYM
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>      Speed up rtree index insertion (Teodor)
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>      Fix excessive logging of <ACRONYM
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>      Fix logging so that log messages are never interleaved when using
      the syslogger process (Andrew)
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>      Fix crash when <TT
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>      Fix incorrect handling of some foreign-key corner cases (Tom)
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>      Fix <CODE
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>      Prevent <TT
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      due to attempting to process temporary tables of other sessions (Alvaro)
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>      Update the time zone database rules, particularly New Zealand's upcoming changes (Tom)
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>      Windows socket and semaphore improvements (Magnus)
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>      Make <TT
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>      Fix memory allocation bug when using <SPAN
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>      Suppress timezone name (<TT
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      because of possible encoding mismatches (Tom)
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>      Require non-superusers who use <TT
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>/contrib/dblink</TT
> to use only
      password authentication, as a security measure (Joe)
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>      Restrict <TT
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> functions to superusers, for security reasons (Tom)
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>      Do not let <TT
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      the default (this caused problems at dump/restore) (Tom)
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