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<appendix id="release">
<title>Release Notes</title>
+ <sect1 id="release-7-3-7">
+ <title>Release 7.3.7</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release date</title>
+ <simpara>2004-08-16</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains one critical fix over 7.3.6, and some minor items.
+ </para>
+
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to version 7.3.7</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.3.X.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Prevent possible loss of committed transactions during crash</para>
+<para>
+Due to insufficient interlocking between transaction commit and checkpointing,
+it was possible for transactions committed just before the most recent
+checkpoint to be lost, in whole or in part, following a database crash and
+restart. This is a serious bug that has existed
+since <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 7.1.
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Remove asymmetrical word processing in tsearch (Teodor)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Properly schema-qualify function names when pg_dump'ing a CAST</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-7-3-6">
<title>Release 7.3.6</title>
@@ -37,7 +77,7 @@ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.163.2.17 2004/03/02 00:39:
turns out to have disabled rule-related permissions checks in many
not-so-corner cases. This would for example allow users to insert into views
they weren't supposed to have permission to insert into. We have therefore
-reverted the 7.3.3 patch. The original bug will be fixed in 7.5.
+reverted the 7.3.3 patch. The original bug will be fixed in 8.0.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Repair incorrect order of operations in
GetNewTransactionId()</para>
@@ -1134,6 +1174,49 @@ Improve /contrib/fulltextindex (Christopher)
</sect1>
+ <sect1 id="release-7-2-5">
+ <title>Release 7.2.5</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release date</title>
+ <simpara>2004-08-16</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.4.
+ </para>
+
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to version 7.2.5</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.2.X.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Prevent possible loss of committed transactions during crash</para>
+<para>
+Due to insufficient interlocking between transaction commit and checkpointing,
+it was possible for transactions committed just before the most recent
+checkpoint to be lost, in whole or in part, following a database crash and
+restart. This is a serious bug that has existed
+since <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 7.1.
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix corner case for btree search in parallel with first root page split</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix buffer overrun in <function>to_ascii</function> (Guido Notari)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix core dump in deadlock detection on machines where char is unsigned</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix failure to respond to <command>pg_ctl stop -m fast</command> after Async_NotifyHandler runs</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Repair memory leaks in pg_dump</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Avoid conflict with system definition of <function>isblank()</function> function or macro</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-7-2-4">
<title>Release 7.2.4</title>