Improve release notes per comments from Andres Freund.

Make a bit more noise about the timeout-interrupt bug.  Also, remove the
release note entry for commit 423e1211a; that patch fixed a problem
introduced post-9.3.2, so there's no need to document it in the release
notes.
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Tom Lane 2014-02-16 12:03:54 -05:00
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<para>
Fix multixact freezing of tuples that predate
a <literal>pg_upgrade</> to 9.3
(&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
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<para>
This oversight would result in complaints such as <quote>ERROR:
MultiXactId 11415437 does no longer exist -- apparent wraparound</>.
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Fix race conditions in walsender shutdown logic and walreceiver
SIGHUP signal handler (Tom Lane)
Prevent timeout interrupts from taking control away from mainline
code unless <varname>ImmediateInterruptOK</> is set
(Andres Freund, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This is a serious issue for any application making use of statement
timeouts, as it could cause all manner of strange failures after a
timeout occurred. We have seen reports of <quote>stuck</> spinlocks,
ERRORs being unexpectedly promoted to PANICs, unkillable backends,
and other misbehaviors.
</para>
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Ensure that signal handlers don't attempt to use
the process's <varname>MyProc</> pointer after it's no longer valid.
Ensure that signal handlers don't attempt to use the
process's <varname>MyProc</> pointer after it's no longer valid.
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Fix race conditions in walsender shutdown logic and walreceiver
SIGHUP signal handler (Tom Lane)
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<listitem>
<para>
Prevent timeout interrupts from taking control away from mainline
code unless <varname>ImmediateInterruptOK</> is set
(Andres Freund, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This was initially reported as a <quote>stuck spinlock</> failure,
but many other misbehaviors are possible after a statement timeout.
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