diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml index 45f39595d39fb5b0aac99707eee9bb81a5a17537..345a5b3404226a9e36e718ae36051c615ee5f8ab 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.335 2005/05/05 17:59:40 tgl Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.336 2005/05/09 00:09:45 tgl Exp $ --> <appendix id="release"> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.335 2005/05/05 17:59:40 tgl Exp <note> <title>Release date</title> - <simpara>2005-05-05</simpara> + <simpara>2005-05-09</simpara> </note> <para> @@ -72,6 +72,17 @@ misuse</para></listitem> <type>INTERNAL</> function results</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Guard against incorrect second parameter to <function>record_out</></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 @@ -2684,7 +2695,7 @@ typedefs (Michael)</para></listitem> <note> <title>Release date</title> - <simpara>2005-05-05</simpara> + <simpara>2005-05-09</simpara> </note> <para> @@ -2795,6 +2806,17 @@ UPDATE pg_database SET datallowconn = false WHERE datname = 'template0'; misuse</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Change <filename>contrib/tsearch2</> to avoid unsafe use of <type>INTERNAL</> function results</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 @@ -5236,7 +5258,7 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE; <note> <title>Release date</title> - <simpara>2005-05-05</simpara> + <simpara>2005-05-09</simpara> </note> <para> @@ -5313,6 +5335,17 @@ 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 @@ -6511,7 +6544,7 @@ operations on bytea columns (Joe)</para></listitem> <note> <title>Release date</title> - <simpara>2005-05-05</simpara> + <simpara>2005-05-09</simpara> </note> <para> @@ -6531,6 +6564,17 @@ 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 @@ -7133,7 +7177,7 @@ since <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 7.1. <listitem><para>Make ALTER TABLE / RENAME COLUMN update column names of indexes (Brent Verner)</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Fix for ALTER TABLE / ADD CONSTRAINT ... CHECK with inherited tables (Stephan Szabo)</para></listitem> <listitem><para>ALTER TABLE RENAME update foreign-key trigger arguments correctly (Brent Verner)</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>DROP AGGREGATE and COMMENT ON AGGREGATE now accepts an aggtype (Tom)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>DROP AGGREGATE and COMMENT ON AGGREGATE now accept an aggtype (Tom)</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Add automatic return type data casting for SQL functions (Tom)</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Allow GiST indexes to handle NULLs and multikey indexes (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev, Tom)</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Enable partial indexes (Martijn van Oosterhout)</para></listitem>