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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Release 7.2.8</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 9.2.24 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Release Notes" HREF="release.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Release 7.3" HREF="release-7-3.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Release 7.2.7" HREF="release-7-2-7.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2017-11-06T22:43:11"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" >PostgreSQL 9.2.24 Documentation</A ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="Release 7.3" HREF="release-7-3.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="release.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Appendix E. Release Notes</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="Release 7.2.7" HREF="release-7-2-7.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="RELEASE-7-2-8" >E.250. Release 7.2.8</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="FORMALPARA" ><P ><B >Release date: </B >2005-05-09</P ></DIV ><P > This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.7, including one security-related issue. </P ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN144667" >E.250.1. Migration to Version 7.2.8</A ></H2 ><P > A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.2.X. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN144670" >E.250.2. Changes</A ></H2 ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Repair ancient race condition that allowed a transaction to be seen as committed for some purposes (eg SELECT FOR UPDATE) slightly sooner than for other purposes</P ><P >This is an extremely serious bug since it could lead to apparent data inconsistencies being briefly visible to applications.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Repair race condition between relation extension and VACUUM</P ><P >This could theoretically have caused loss of a page's worth of freshly-inserted data, although the scenario seems of very low probability. There are no known cases of it having caused more than an Assert failure.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Fix <CODE CLASS="FUNCTION" >EXTRACT(EPOCH)</CODE > for <TT CLASS="TYPE" >TIME WITH TIME ZONE</TT > values</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Additional buffer overrun checks in plpgsql (Neil)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Fix pg_dump to dump index names and trigger names containing <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >%</TT > correctly (Neil)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Prevent <CODE CLASS="FUNCTION" >to_char(interval)</CODE > from dumping core for month-related formats</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Fix <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >contrib/pgcrypto</TT > for newer OpenSSL builds (Marko Kreen)</P ></LI ></UL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="release-7-3.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="release-7-2-7.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Release 7.3</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="release.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Release 7.2.7</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >