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docs: update release notes for 8.4.18, 9.0.14, 9.1.10, 9.2.5, 9.3.1

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<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
<sect1 id="release-8-4-18">
<title>Release 8.4.18</title>
<note>
<title>Release Date</title>
<simpara>2013-10-10</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.4.17.
For information about new features in the 8.4 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-8-4">.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 8.4.18</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.4.X.
</para>
<para>
Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.4.10,
see the release notes for 8.4.10.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Prevent downcasing of non-ASCII non-double-quoted identifiers in
multi-byte encodings (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
<para>
The previous behavior was wrong and confusing.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix memory leak caused by <function>lo_open()</function> failure
(Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix memory overcommit bug when <varname>work_mem</> is using more
than 24GB of memory (Stephen Frost)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix libpq SSL deadlock bug (Stephen Frost)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Properly compute row estimates for boolean columns containing many NULL
values (Andrew Gierth)
</para>
<para>
Previously tests like <literal>col IS NOT TRUE</> and <literal>col IS
NOT FALSE</> did not properly factor in NULL values when estimating
plan costs.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Prevent pushing down <literal>WHERE</> clauses into unsafe
<literal>UNION/INTERSECT</> subqueries (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Previously such push downs could generate errors.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix rare <literal>GROUP BY</> query error caused by improperly processed date type
modifiers (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow view dump code to better handle dropped columns on base tables
(Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible deadlock during concurrent <command>CREATE INDEX
CONCURRENTLY</> operations (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <function>regexp_matches()</> handling of zero-length matches
(Jeevan Chalke)
</para>
<para>
Previously, zero-length matches like '^' could return too many matches.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix crash for overly-complex regular expressions (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix regular expression match failures for back references combined with
non-greedy quantifiers (Jeevan Chalke)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Prevent <command>CREATE FUNCTION</> from checking <command>SET</>
variables unless function body checking is enabled (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <function>pgp_pub_decrypt()</> so it works for secret keys with
passwords (Marko Kreen)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Remove rare inaccurate warning during vacuum of index-less tables
(Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid possible failure when performing transaction control commands (e.g
<command>ROLLBACK</>) in prepared queries (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow various spellings of infinity on all platforms (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Supported infinity values are "inf", "+inf", "-inf", "infinity",
"+infinity", and "-infinity".
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Expand ability to compare rows to records and arrays (Rafal Rzepecki,
Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2013d
for DST law changes in DST law changes in Israel, Morocco, Palestine,
Paraguay. Also, historical zone data corrections for Macquarie Island
(Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-8-4-17">
<title>Release 8.4.17</title>