Re: [HACKERS] 9.4.1 -> 9.4.2 problem: could not access status of transaction 1

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>
>> > There are at least two other known issues that seem like they should
>> > be fixed before we release:
>>
>> > 1. The problem that we might truncate an SLRU members page away when
>> > it's in the buffers, but not drop it from the buffers, leading to a
>> > failure when we try to write it later.
>>
>> > 2. Thomas's bug fix for another longstanding but that occurs when you
>> > run his checkpoint-segment-boundary.sh script.
>>
>> > I think we might want to try to fix one or both of those before
>> > cutting a new release. I'm less sold on the idea of installing
>> > WAL-logging in this minor release. That probably needs to be done,
>> > but right now we've got stuff that worked in early 9.3.X release and
>> > is now broken, and I'm in favor of fixing that first.
>>
>> Okay, but if we're not committing today to a release wrap on Monday,
>> I don't see it happening till after PGCon.
>
> In that case, I think we should get a release out next week. The
> current situation is rather badly broken and dangerous, and the above
> two bugs are nowhere as problematic. If we can get fixes for these over
> the weekend, that would be additional bonus.

Yeah, I think I agree.

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