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Tom Lane b8222e5006 When truncating a relation in-place (eg during VACUUM), do not try to unlink
any no-longer-needed segments; just truncate them to zero bytes and leave
the files in place for possible future re-use.  This avoids problems when
the segments are re-used due to relation growth shortly after truncation.
Before, the bgwriter, and possibly other backends, could still be holding
open file references to the old segment files, and would write dirty blocks
into those files where they'd disappear from the view of other processes.

Back-patch as far as 8.0.  I believe the 7.x branches are not vulnerable,
because they had no bgwriter, and "blind" writes by other backends would
always be done via freshly-opened file references.
2006-11-20 01:08:10 +00:00
config New version of mkinstalldirs fixes problems on Tru64 UNIX. 2005-01-08 09:54:29 +00:00
contrib Fix bug introduced by last patch, thanks again to Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com> 2006-08-08 15:45:56 +00:00
doc Update release notes for SQL functions vs triggers fix. 2006-10-12 19:25:32 +00:00
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README.CVS

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================
  
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

The JDBC, ODBC, C++, Python, and Tcl interfaces have been moved to the
PostgreSQL Projects Web Site at http://gborg.postgresql.org for separate
maintenance.  A Perl DBI/DBD driver is available from CPAN.

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
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