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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.2.7, including one
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>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
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>This is an extremely serious bug since it could lead to apparent
data inconsistencies being briefly visible to applications.</P
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>Repair race condition between relation extension and
VACUUM</P
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>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
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>Fix <CODE
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<TT
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>Additional buffer overrun checks in plpgsql
(Neil)</P
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>Fix pg_dump to dump index names and trigger names containing
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month-related formats</P
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(Marko Kreen)</P
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