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Re: 2025-05-08 release announcement draft

Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> — 2025-05-07T01:38:28Z

On 5/6/25 8:29 AM, Matthias van de Meent wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2025 at 05:32, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Attached is the draft of the release announcement for the 2025-05-08
>> release. Please review for correctness and omissions.
>>
>> Please provide feedback no later than 2025-05-08 12:00 UTC.
> 
> I think this omits 459e7bf8e (aka 78cb2466f on REL_17_STABLE) which
> fixes certain bitmap scans' race condition with VACUUM. I think a line
> like the following could be good:
> 
> * Fix for potentially incorrect results when bitmap scan nodes without
> output columns are run concurrently with VACUUM on the underlying
> table.

Added with some wordsmithing:

* Fix for potentially returning incorrect results when a bitmap scan 
without output columns is executed while vacuum is also running on the 
same table.

Jonathan