Re: 8.2 Beta 3 Now Available for Download / Testing ...

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> As a result of there being two *known* outstanding bugs, we have just 
>> bundled up a Beta3, to allow for testing of the recent patch 
>> concerning WAL replay ...
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> What are the bugs?

AFAIK:

1. Tuple freezing and hint bits were not WAL-logged, which could lead to 
data corruption if database crashed after VACUUM. See recent thread 
titled "WAL logging freezing".

2. B-tree page deletion bug, which could lead to VACUUM erroring with 
"failed to re-find parent key" message. See thread "Nasty btree deletion 
bug": http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01373.php

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