PostgreSQL 8.3.3, 8.2.9 etc. Update Release

Updates for all maintained versions of PostgreSQL are available today: 8.3.3,
8.2.9, 8.1.13, 8.0.17 and 7.4.21.  These releases fix more than two dozen
minor issues reported and patched over the last few months.  All PostgreSQL
users should plan to update at their earliest convenience. Users of UTF-8
databases on Windows and people in affected time zones, in particular, should
upgrade as soon as possible.

The issues fixed include a crash caused by encoding mismatch on Windows,
possible crash when decompressing corrupted data, non-optimization of some
parameterized queries, new time zone updates, SIGTERM-caused memory
corruption, runaway LWLocks with GIN indexes, and several more.  Read the
release notes to see if any of the issues affect you.

As with other minor releases, users are not required to dump and reload their
database in order to apply this update release; you may simply upgrade the
PostgreSQL binaries.  Users skipping more than one update may need to check
the release notes for extra, post-update steps.  As previously announced,
only versions 8.2.9 and 8.3.3 of the Windows binaries are being released, as
we no longer support 8.0 and 8.1 on Windows.

Release Notes:
        http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release.html
Source Code
        http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source
Binaries
        http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary

Please note: we "skipped" a minor release number due to an issue found with
the 8.3.2 etc. release bundles, which were never announced but were available
via FTP for a few days.  If for some reason you downloaded versions 8.3.2,
8.2.8, 8.1.12, 8.0.16 or 7.4.20, please replace them with the new update
immediately.

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