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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.4.7.
   For information about new features in the 8.4 major release, see
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>    A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.4.X.
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>    However, if your installation was upgraded from a previous major
    release by running <SPAN
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    action to prevent possible data loss due to a now-fixed bug in
    <SPAN
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>      Fix <SPAN
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>pg_upgrade</SPAN
>'s handling of TOAST tables
      (Bruce Momjian)
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>      The <TT
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>pg_class</TT
>.<TT
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>relfrozenxid</TT
> value for
      TOAST tables was not correctly copied into the new installation
      during <SPAN
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>pg_upgrade</SPAN
>.  This could later result in
      <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>pg_clog</TT
> files being discarded while they were still
      needed to validate tuples in the TOAST tables, leading to
      <SPAN
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>"could not access status of transaction"</SPAN
> failures.
     </P
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>      This error poses a significant risk of data loss for installations
      that have been upgraded with <SPAN
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>pg_upgrade</SPAN
>.  This patch
      corrects the problem for future uses of <SPAN
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>pg_upgrade</SPAN
>,
      but does not in itself cure the issue in installations that have been
      processed with a buggy version of <SPAN
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>      Suppress incorrect <SPAN
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>"PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag was incorrectly set"</SPAN
>
      warning (Heikki Linnakangas)
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>      <TT
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>VACUUM</TT
> would sometimes issue this warning in cases that
      are actually valid.
     </P
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>      Disallow including a composite type in itself (Tom Lane)
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>      This prevents scenarios wherein the server could recurse infinitely
      while processing the composite type.  While there are some possible
      uses for such a structure, they don't seem compelling enough to
      justify the effort required to make sure it always works safely.
     </P
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>      Avoid potential deadlock during catalog cache initialization
      (Nikhil Sontakke)
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>      In some cases the cache loading code would acquire share lock on a
      system index before locking the index's catalog.  This could deadlock
      against processes trying to acquire exclusive locks in the other,
      more standard order.
     </P
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>      Fix dangling-pointer problem in <TT
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>BEFORE ROW UPDATE</TT
> trigger
      handling when there was a concurrent update to the target tuple
      (Tom Lane)
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>      This bug has been observed to result in intermittent <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"cannot
      extract system attribute from virtual tuple"</SPAN
> failures while trying to
      do <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>UPDATE RETURNING ctid</TT
>.  There is a very small probability
      of more serious errors, such as generating incorrect index entries for
      the updated tuple.
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>      Disallow <TT
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>DROP TABLE</TT
> when there are pending deferred trigger
      events for the table (Tom Lane)
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>      Formerly the <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DROP</TT
> would go through, leading to
      <SPAN
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>"could not open relation with OID nnn"</SPAN
> errors when the
      triggers were eventually fired.
     </P
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>      Prevent crash triggered by constant-false WHERE conditions during
      GEQO optimization (Tom Lane)
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>      Improve planner's handling of semi-join and anti-join cases
      (Tom Lane)
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>      Fix selectivity estimation for text search to account for NULLs
      (Jesper Krogh)
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>      Improve PL/pgSQL's ability to handle row types with dropped columns
      (Pavel Stehule)
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>      This is a back-patch of fixes previously made in 9.0.
     </P
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>      Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices (Daniel Popowich)
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>      Fix <SPAN
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> to cope with long lines (over 1KB) in
      TOC files (Tom Lane)
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>      Put in more safeguards against crashing due to division-by-zero
      with overly enthusiastic compiler optimization (Aurelien Jarno)
     </P
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>      Support use of dlopen() in FreeBSD and OpenBSD on MIPS (Tom Lane)
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>      There was a hard-wired assumption that this system function was not
      available on MIPS hardware on these systems.  Use a compile-time test
      instead, since more recent versions have it.
     </P
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>      Fix compilation failures on HP-UX (Heikki Linnakangas)
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      Windows (Hiroshi Inoue)
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      work correctly under Windows 7 (Andrew Dunstan)
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> on Cygwin
      (Andrew Dunstan)
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>      Update time zone data files to <SPAN
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> release 2011f
      for DST law changes in Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Morocco, Samoa,
      and Turkey; also historical corrections for South Australia, Alaska,
      and Hawaii.
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