Re: RC3 ... anyone have anything left outstanding?

Okay, unless I hear different from anyone out there, I'm goin to roll RC3
when I get to work tomorrow, and announce it before I leave (to give it
some time to propogate to the mirrors) ...

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > Thomas?  Did I miss your patch for the 'WITH TIMEZONE' regression test?
>
> Still not there in CVS ...
>
> > Does anyone else have anything left outstanding that should hold me off
> > from doing an RC3 tomorrow?
>
> Other than a better answer for the horology test, I think we are good
> to go.  The main thing that was still bothering me was Konstantin
> Solodovnikov's report of database corruption.  I just committed a fix
> for the primary cause of that problem: turns out he was triggering a
> random transfer of control inside plpgsql.  (Calling through a
> previously freed function pointer is uncool...)  I'm guessing that the
> ensuing corruption of the database can be blamed on whatever bit of code
> managed to misexecute before the backend crashed completely.  This is
> plausible because he reports that he only saw corruption in perhaps one
> out of every several hundred repetitions of the crash --- it makes sense
> that you'd need to mistransfer just so to result in writing junk XLOG
> entries or whatever was the direct cause of the data corruption.
>
> Vadim is still poking at the test case Konstantin sent, but I'll bet
> he won't be able to reproduce any corruption.  The effects of jumping
> through an overwritten function pointer would be exceedingly
> system-specific.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

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