Re: [HACKERS] Draft release notes for 9.3.2

2013-12-02 Thread Tom Lane
Mika Eloranta writes: > On 02 Dec 2013, at 01:56, Tom Lane wrote: >> * any other items that need to be corrected or expanded? > I think 2103430 (Fix parsing of xlog file name in pg_receivexlog) is worth > mentioning, > as all past pg_receivexlog 9.3.x versions fail to resume interrupted > str

Re: [HACKERS] Draft release notes for 9.3.2

2013-12-02 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-12-02 10:51:28 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > Tom, > > "The issue can be ameliorated by, after upgrading, vacuuming all tables > in all databases while having vacuum_freeze_table_age set to zero. " > > Why not say: > > "This issue can be ameliorated by, after upgrading, running a > database

Re: [HACKERS] Draft release notes for 9.3.2

2013-12-02 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, "The issue can be ameliorated by, after upgrading, vacuuming all tables in all databases while having vacuum_freeze_table_age set to zero. " Why not say: "This issue can be ameliorated by, after upgrading, running a database-wide VACUUM FREEZE." Or is there a difference in this case? If s

Re: [HACKERS] Draft release notes for 9.3.2

2013-12-02 Thread Mika Eloranta
On 02 Dec 2013, at 01:56, Tom Lane wrote: > > * any other items that need to be corrected or expanded? I think 2103430 (Fix parsing of xlog file name in pg_receivexlog) is worth mentioning, as all past pg_receivexlog 9.3.x versions fail to resume interrupted streaming after ~4 GiB of xlogs ha

Re: [HACKERS] Draft release notes for 9.3.2

2013-12-02 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-12-02 12:26:25 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund writes: > > I think it might be worth mentioning that (parts) of the data are > > potentially recoverable without too much effort in all of the bugs. > > I thought about that but was afraid that it'd come off like a commercial > for da

Re: [HACKERS] Draft release notes for 9.3.2

2013-12-02 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > On 2013-12-01 18:56:19 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> * is it useful to go into more detail than this about the data corruption >> bugs? It's not clear to me that we can say more than "vacuum and re-clone >> your standbys" as far as recovery actions go, at least not within the

Re: [HACKERS] Draft release notes for 9.3.2

2013-12-02 Thread Tom Lane
Sergey Burladyan writes: > Is it possible to fix my surname in changelog? > -Sergey Burladyn > +Sergey Burladyan Oh, sorry about that! I can't do anything about the typo in the commit log, but certainly we can get it right in the release notes. regards, tom lane -- Se

Re: [HACKERS] Draft release notes for 9.3.2

2013-12-02 Thread Sergey Burladyan
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund writes: > > On 2013-12-01 18:56:19 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> I'd like to do any required editing on the notes at this stage, > >> before I start extracting relevant subsets for the older branches. > > > When do you plan to backpat

Re: [HACKERS] Draft release notes for 9.3.2

2013-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > On 2013-12-01 18:56:19 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> I'd like to do any required editing on the notes at this stage, >> before I start extracting relevant subsets for the older branches. > When do you plan to backpatch the documentation? Tomorrow afternoon (my time).

Re: [HACKERS] Draft release notes for 9.3.2

2013-12-01 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-12-01 18:56:19 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I've put up draft notes at > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=23e796de15567e9d31e8f9e8661828179f24a7be > and they should be visible on the docs website at > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/release-9-3-2.htm

[HACKERS] Draft release notes for 9.3.2

2013-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
I've put up draft notes at http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=23e796de15567e9d31e8f9e8661828179f24a7be and they should be visible on the docs website at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/release-9-3-2.html in half an hour or so, after guaibasaurus does its n