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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.5.
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>      Improve handling of <CODE
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>      This fixes a problem with starting the statistics collector,
      among other things.
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>      Fix <SPAN
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      that contains large objects (blobs) with comments (Tom)
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>       Fix <SPAN
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       <TT
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>       Clean out <TT
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>pg_internal.init</TT
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       restart (Simon)
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>       This avoids a hazard that the cache files might contain stale
       data after PITR recovery.
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>       Fix race condition for truncation of a large relation across a
       gigabyte boundary by <TT
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>       Fix bug causing needless deadlock errors on row-level locks (Tom)
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>       Fix bugs affecting multi-gigabyte hash indexes (Tom)
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>      Fix possible deadlock in Windows signal handling (Teodor)
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>      Fix error when constructing an <TT
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      empty elements (Tom)
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>      Fix ecpg memory leak during connection (Michael)
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>      Fix for Darwin (OS X) compilation (Tom)
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>      <CODE
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      new <SPAN
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>      This is because <TT
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>      Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
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>      Update timezone database
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>      This affects Australian and Canadian daylight-savings rules in
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