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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.4.
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>Disallow aggregate functions in <TT
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>UPDATE</TT
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commands, except within sub-SELECTs (Tom)</P
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>The behavior of such an aggregate was unpredictable, and in 8.1.X
could cause a crash, so it has been disabled.  The SQL standard does not allow
this either.</P
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>Fix core dump when an untyped literal is taken as
ANYARRAY</P
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>Fix core dump in duration logging for extended query protocol
when a <TT
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>Fix mishandling of AFTER triggers when query contains a SQL
function returning multiple rows (Tom)</P
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>Fix <TT
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>Fix <CODE
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>string_to_array()</CODE
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 matches for the separator string</P
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>string_to_array('123xx456xxx789', 'xx')</TT
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>Fix <CODE
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>to_timestamp()</CODE
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<TT
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>Fix autovacuum's calculation that decides whether
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>Fix corner cases in pattern matching for
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>Fix index-corrupting bugs in /contrib/ltree
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>Numerous robustness fixes in <SPAN
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Wieland)</P
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>Fix backslash escaping in /contrib/dbmirror</P
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>Fix instability of statistics collection on Windows (Tom, Andrew)</P
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>Fix <TT
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units on Win32 (Bruce)</P
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>In previous Win32 8.1.X versions, the delay was off by a factor of
100.</P
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>Fixes for <ACRONYM
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compilers (Hiroshi Saito)</P
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>Fix rare bug in continuous archiving (Tom)</P
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