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| author | Tom Lane | 2005-05-09 00:10:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane | 2005-05-09 00:10:35 +0000 |
| commit | e5921b3230f175669faf4b97cd967a2dd5023fdc (patch) | |
| tree | 32657d6e6e7afadf035cb8d4d3e549cc26d2ce35 | |
| parent | dc9e82d0e605f4c708bad26102924be581d9c8ca (diff) | |
Update release notes for upcoming re-releases.REL7_3_10
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/release.sgml | 28 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml index 5f9870b4382..efe527db21a 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 1.163.2.21 2005/05/05 20:09:11 tgl Exp $ +$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.163.2.22 2005/05/09 00:10:35 tgl Exp $ --> <appendix id="release"> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.163.2.21 2005/05/05 20:09: <note> <title>Release date</title> - <simpara>2005-05-05</simpara> + <simpara>2005-05-09</simpara> </note> <para> @@ -87,6 +87,17 @@ 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 @@ -1286,7 +1297,7 @@ operations on bytea columns (Joe)</para></listitem> <note> <title>Release date</title> - <simpara>2005-05-05</simpara> + <simpara>2005-05-09</simpara> </note> <para> @@ -1306,6 +1317,17 @@ 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 |