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55<appendix id="release">
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2525 A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those
2626 running 7.4.
2727 </para>
28+
29+ <para>
30+ If you want to install the fixes in the information schema
31+ concerning the bit types, you need to reload the information
32+ schema. This is either accomplished by initializing a new cluster
33+ by running <command>initdb</command>, or by running the following
34+ sequence of SQL commands in each database (ideally including
35+ <literal>template1</literal>) as a superuser in
36+ <application>psql</application>, after installing the new release:
37+ <programlisting>
38+ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE;
39+ \i /usr/local/pgsql/share/information_schema.sql
40+ </programlisting>
41+ Substitute your installation path in the second command.
42+ </para>
43+
2844 </sect2>
2945
3046 <sect2>