Re: Incomplete freezing when truncating a relation during vacuum

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Incomplete freezing when truncating a relation during vacuum
Date: 2013-11-30 16:50:57
Message-ID: 24283.1385830257@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> FWIW, I think the two other data corrupting bugs, "incomplete freezing
> due to truncation" (all branches) and freezing overall (in 9.3), are at
> least as bad because they take effect on the primary.
> Not saying that because of my involvement, but because I think they need
> to be presented at least as prominent in the release notes.
> They bugs themselves are all fixed in the relevant branches, but I do
> think we need to talk about about how to detect and fix possible
> corruption.

I was planning to draft up the release notes today. Can you propose
text about the above?

regards, tom lane

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