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 105 >2003-01-30</P
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 109 >   This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.3,
 110    including fixes to prevent possible data loss.
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 121 >    A dump/restore is <SPAN
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 128     running version 7.2.*.
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 144 >Fix some additional cases of VACUUM "No one parent tuple was found" error</P
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 148 >Prevent VACUUM from being called inside a function  (Bruce)</P
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 152 >Ensure pg_clog updates are sync'd to disk before marking checkpoint complete</P
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 156 >Avoid integer overflow during large hash joins</P
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 160 >Make GROUP commands work when pg_group.grolist is large enough to be toasted</P
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 164 >Fix errors in datetime tables; some timezone names weren't being recognized</P
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 168 >Fix integer overflows in circle_poly(), path_encode(), path_add()  (Neil)</P
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 172 >Repair long-standing logic errors in lseg_eq(), lseg_ne(), lseg_center()</P
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