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- <listitem>
- <para>
- Fix multixact freezing of tuples that predate
- a <literal>pg_upgrade</> to 9.3
- (Álvaro Herrera)
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This oversight would result in complaints such as <quote>ERROR:
- MultiXactId 11415437 does no longer exist -- apparent wraparound</>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
- 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>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- 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 pointer after it's no longer valid.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 pointer after it's no longer valid.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
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+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix race conditions in walsender shutdown logic and walreceiver
+ SIGHUP signal handler (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
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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.
- </para>
- </listitem>
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