Re: [ANNOUNCE] v7.3.4 Bug Fix Release

Tom Lane wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
>
>>In order to address a potentially serious (although rare) server startup
>>failure that was recently reported, we have just bundled up and put onto
>>the ftp sites v7.3.4 of PostgreSQL ...
>
>
> BTW, it should be mentioned that the startup failure was introduced in
> 7.3.3. If you are running 7.3.3, I recommend that you consider this an
> urgent upgrade. If you are running an older version then it is not urgent.

Is this an example of the startup failure?

LOG: database system shutdown was interrupted at 2003-07-27 21:46:13 EDT
LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/52BB1FC0
LOG: redo record is at 0/52BB1FC0; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE
LOG: next transaction id: 1198743; next oid: 1702650
LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in
progress
LOG: ReadRecord: unexpected pageaddr 0/4DBB2000 in log file 0, segment
82, offset 12263424
LOG: redo is not required
PANIC: XLogWrite: write request 0/52BB2000 is past end of log 0/52BB2000
LOG: startup process (pid 688) was terminated by signal 6
LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure