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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.
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>      Fix crash with <TT
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>      On Windows, make log messages coming from the operating system use
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>      This fixes a conversion problem when there is a mismatch between
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>      Fix Windows linking of <SPAN
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>      Fix planner mistakes for outer join queries (Tom)
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>      Fix several problems in queries involving sub-SELECTs (Tom)
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>      Fix potential crash in SPI during subtransaction abort (Tom)
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>      This affects all PL functions since they all use SPI.
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>      Improve build speed of <ACRONYM
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>      Re-add <ACRONYM
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>      Improve optimization decisions related to index scans (Tom)
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>      Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
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