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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 /HISTORY | |
| 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
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@@ -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 % |