Re: Incomplete freezing when truncating a relation during vacuum

On 2013-11-30 11:50:57 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.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?

I can, but it will be a couple of hours before I can give it serious
thought (starving and insanity being serious perils otherwise ;)).

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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