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# E.58. Release 8.1.10

> Release date: 2007-09-17

This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.9. For information about new features in the 8.1 major release, see Section E.68.

## E.58.1. Migration to Version 8.1.10

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.

## E.58.2. Changes

- Prevent index corruption when a transaction inserts rows and then aborts close to the end of a concurrent `VACUUM` on the same table (Tom)

- Make `CREATE DOMAIN ... DEFAULT NULL` work properly (Tom)

- Allow the `interval` data type to accept input consisting only of milliseconds or microseconds (Neil)

- Speed up rtree index insertion (Teodor)

- Fix excessive logging of SSL error messages (Tom)

- Fix logging so that log messages are never interleaved when using the syslogger process (Andrew)

- Fix crash when `log_min_error_statement` logging runs out of memory (Tom)

- Fix incorrect handling of some foreign-key corner cases (Tom)

- Prevent `REINDEX` and `CLUSTER` from failing due to attempting to process temporary tables of other sessions (Alvaro)

- Update the time zone database rules, particularly New Zealand's upcoming changes (Tom)

- Windows socket improvements (Magnus)

- Suppress timezone name (`%Z`) in log timestamps on Windows because of possible encoding mismatches (Tom)

- Require non-superusers who use `/contrib/dblink` to use only password authentication, as a security measure (Joe)

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