Jan:

someone asked me about the FK deadlock fix, mentioned in the 7.3.3
release notes as 3rd change:

     http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-7-3-3.html

Actually, that fix was available with 7.4, not 7.3. Don't know if we can
retroactively change the release-notes though.

Author: bmomjian

HISTORY

@@ -462,6 +462,8 @@ Query Changes
        In prior releases, LIMIT/OFFSET could only use constants, not
        expressions.
      * Implement CREATE TABLE AS EXECUTE (Neil, Peter)
+     * Don't lock referenced row when "UPDATE" doesn't change foreign
+       key's value (Jan)
      _________________________________________________________________
 
 Object Manipulation Changes
@@ -938,8 +940,6 @@ Changes
      * Repair sometimes-incorrect computation of StartUpID after a crash
      * Avoid slowness with lots of deferred triggers in one transaction
        (Stephan)
-     * Don't lock referenced row when "UPDATE" doesn't change foreign
-       key's value (Jan)
      * Use "-fPIC" not "-fpic" on Sparc (Tom Callaway)
      * Repair lack of schema-awareness in contrib/reindexdb
      * Fix contrib/intarray error for zero-element result array (Teodor)

doc/src/sgml/release.sgml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.253 2004/02/10 20:51:39 neilc Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.254 2004/02/12 20:17:34 momjian Exp $
 -->
 
 <appendix id="release">
@@ -1056,6 +1056,7 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE;
     <listitem>
      <para>Implement <literal>CREATE TABLE AS EXECUTE</literal> (Neil, Peter)</para>
     </listitem>
+    <listitem><para>Don't lock referenced row when <command>UPDATE</command> doesn't change foreign key's value (Jan)</para></listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
   </sect3>
 
@@ -2089,7 +2090,6 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE;
 <itemizedlist>
 <listitem><para>Repair sometimes-incorrect computation of StartUpID after a crash</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>Avoid slowness with lots of deferred triggers in one transaction (Stephan)</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>Don't lock referenced row when <command>UPDATE</command> doesn't change foreign key's value (Jan)</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>Use <command>-fPIC</command> not <command>-fpic</command> on Sparc (Tom Callaway)</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>Repair lack of schema-awareness in contrib/reindexdb</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>Fix contrib/intarray error for zero-element result array (Teodor)</para></listitem>