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> Widen local lock counters from 32 to 64 bits (Tom)
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> Fix possible duplicate output of tuples during a GiST index scan (Teodor)
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> Add checks in executor startup to ensure that the tuples produced by an
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> Fix <TT
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> to first try to interpret its timezone
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name if that fails, rather than the other way around as formerly (Tom)
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> The timestamp input functions have always resolved ambiguous zone names
in this order. Making <TT
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> Fix PL/pgSQL to not fail when a <TT
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> Fix PL/Tcl to behave correctly with Tcl 8.5, and to be more careful
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error reporting after failure to send a SQL command (Tom)
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> Fix <SPAN
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command-line arguments across a <TT
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