Update release notes for upcoming re-releases.

postgres · May 9, 2005 · 6a36111 · 6a36111
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                                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
@@ -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