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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2005-05-09 00:10:22 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2005-05-09 00:10:22 +0000
commit103376e075cb2c14e1f0ba53fe82de87c654dffc (patch)
tree605b17a4ab0ea564f7df47877d26730558f403aa
parent775fec12c6a5b1010a5430f35a830f40d3b50482 (diff)
downloadpostgresql-103376e075cb2c14e1f0ba53fe82de87c654dffc.tar.gz
Update release notes for upcoming re-releases.REL7_4_8
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/release.sgml41
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index a3f1b3e63e..a9435ea41b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.235.2.30 2005/05/05 20:08:34 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.235.2.31 2005/05/09 00:10:22 tgl Exp $
-->
<appendix id="release">
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.235.2.30 2005/05/05 20:08:
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
- <simpara>2005-05-05</simpara>
+ <simpara>2005-05-09</simpara>
</note>
<para>
@@ -121,6 +121,17 @@ UPDATE pg_database SET datallowconn = false WHERE datname = 'template0';
misuse</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Change <filename>contrib/tsearch2</> to avoid unsafe use of
<type>INTERNAL</> function results</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Repair ancient race condition that allowed a transaction to be
+seen as committed for some purposes (eg SELECT FOR UPDATE) slightly sooner
+than for other purposes</para>
+<para>This is an extremely serious bug since it could lead to apparent
+data inconsistencies being briefly visible to applications.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Repair race condition between relation extension and
+VACUUM</para>
+<para>This could theoretically have caused loss of a page's worth of
+freshly-inserted data, although the scenario seems of very low probability.
+There are no known cases of it having caused more than an Assert failure.
+</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix comparisons of <type>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</> values</para>
<para>
The comparison code was wrong in the case where the
@@ -2562,7 +2573,7 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE;
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
- <simpara>2005-05-05</simpara>
+ <simpara>2005-05-09</simpara>
</note>
<para>
@@ -2639,6 +2650,17 @@ UPDATE pg_database SET datallowconn = false WHERE datname = 'template0';
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Change encoding function signature to prevent
misuse</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Repair ancient race condition that allowed a transaction to be
+seen as committed for some purposes (eg SELECT FOR UPDATE) slightly sooner
+than for other purposes</para>
+<para>This is an extremely serious bug since it could lead to apparent
+data inconsistencies being briefly visible to applications.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Repair race condition between relation extension and
+VACUUM</para>
+<para>This could theoretically have caused loss of a page's worth of
+freshly-inserted data, although the scenario seems of very low probability.
+There are no known cases of it having caused more than an Assert failure.
+</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix comparisons of <type>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</> values</para>
<para>
The comparison code was wrong in the case where the
@@ -3838,7 +3860,7 @@ operations on bytea columns (Joe)</para></listitem>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
- <simpara>2005-05-05</simpara>
+ <simpara>2005-05-09</simpara>
</note>
<para>
@@ -3858,6 +3880,17 @@ operations on bytea columns (Joe)</para></listitem>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Repair ancient race condition that allowed a transaction to be
+seen as committed for some purposes (eg SELECT FOR UPDATE) slightly sooner
+than for other purposes</para>
+<para>This is an extremely serious bug since it could lead to apparent
+data inconsistencies being briefly visible to applications.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Repair race condition between relation extension and
+VACUUM</para>
+<para>This could theoretically have caused loss of a page's worth of
+freshly-inserted data, although the scenario seems of very low probability.
+There are no known cases of it having caused more than an Assert failure.
+</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix <function>EXTRACT(EPOCH)</> for
<type>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</> values</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Additional buffer overrun checks in plpgsql