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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2005-05-09 00:10:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2005-05-09 00:10:53 +0000 |
| commit | 6a36111ecaf0fd435267f4d46fffcea714d87627 (patch) | |
| tree | 6833abe3f9cd4b639a7e99d4fe89233c0648e8da | |
| parent | cb0ddb62e22858938a401c8423298221528d7214 (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-REL7_2_8.tar.gz postgresql-REL7_2_8.zip | |
Update release notes for upcoming re-releases.REL7_2_8
| -rw-r--r-- | HISTORY | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/release.sgml | 15 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Release 7.2.8 - Release date: 2005-05-05 + Release date: 2005-05-09 This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.7, including one security-related issue. @@ -16,6 +16,16 @@ Changes + * 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 + This is an extremely serious bug since it could lead to apparent + data inconsistencies being briefly visible to applications. + * Repair race condition between relation extension and VACUUM + 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. * Fix EXTRACT(EPOCH) for TIME WITH TIME ZONE values * Additional buffer overrun checks in plpgsql (Neil) * Fix pg_dump to dump index names and trigger names containing % diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml index 43b46a6f285..e6e68629558 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 1.115.2.12 2005/05/05 20:10:06 tgl Exp $ +$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.115.2.13 2005/05/09 00:10:52 tgl Exp $ --> <appendix id="release"> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.115.2.12 2005/05/05 20:10: <note> <title>Release date</title> - <simpara>2005-05-05</simpara> + <simpara>2005-05-09</simpara> </note> <para> @@ -30,6 +30,17 @@ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.115.2.12 2005/05/05 20:10: <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 |