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<sect1 id="release-8-1-4">

<title>Release 8.1.4</title>

<note>

<title>Release date</title>

<simpara>2006-05-22</simpara>

</note>

<para>

This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.3,

</para>

<sect2>

<title>Migration to version 8.1.4</title>

<para>

A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X.

However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.1.2,

see the release notes for 8.1.2.

</para>

</sect2>

<sect2>

<title>Changes</title>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Improve sort performance (Tom, Dann Corbit)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Disable <literal>full_page_writes</> because of reliability bug (Tom)</para>

<para>In certain cases, <literal>full_page_writes</> would cause crash recovery to fail.

</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Various bitmap scan improvements (Tom)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Have <application>pg_dumpall</> dumping pre-8.1 databases with indentical user

and group names create a single role with <literal>LOGIN</> permission (Tom)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix <application>pg_restore</> <literal>-n</> (Tom)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix <literal>SIMILAR TO</> for alternative values (Tom)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix <command>SELECT INTO</> and <command>CREATE TABLE AS</> to create tables in the default

tablespace, not the base directory (Kris Jurka)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix problem with password prompting on some Win32 systems (Robert

Kinberg)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Fix for Bonjour on Intel Macs (Ashley Clark)</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect2>

</sect1>