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Update release notes for upcoming re-releases. REL7_2_8
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Mon, 9 May 2005 00:10:53 +0000 (00:10 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Mon, 9 May 2005 00:10:53 +0000 (00:10 +0000)
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diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 1a8baf228ff83fb3e87bd3732afb80d855a05cc8..8468859d9f4b2ea518c79b243395fcda71930db1 100644 (file)
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -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 43b46a6f2854bce8db6d8fd4b6bc759a6e4aeb08..e6e6862955803fd98027383df97cc3a94c3c9ec8 100644 (file)
--- 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
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