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CLASS="SECT2"
><A
NAME="AEN139628"
>E.179.2. Changes</A
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><UL
><LI
><P
>Prevent possible loss of committed transactions during crash</P
><P
>Due to insufficient interlocking between transaction commit and checkpointing,
it was possible for transactions committed just before the most recent
checkpoint to be lost, in whole or in part, following a database crash and
restart.  This is a serious bug that has existed
since <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> 7.1.</