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

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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 ...
>>>
>> 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
>

I assume that we also want to fix the plperl/plperlu interaction issue,
especially as it will result in changed behaviour on some platforms, at
least.

I have asked a couple of people to look over and test the patch I posted
on Sunday, but i have not had any reaction so far and feel slightly
nervous about applying it. I will make some time to do more testing
myself this weekend.

cheers

andrew