Document change in large object snapshotting behavior as a version

[postgresql] / doc / src / sgml / release.sgml

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index c79bbc8048ebeff1b02c136a82551bdb613cbddd..7660d338f40d0f11ede3898f4efadc9f9abd3e27 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.374 2005/09/23 16:36:35 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.375 2005/09/24 20:35:21 tgl Exp $
 
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@@ -376,6 +376,21 @@ pg_[A-Za-z0-9_]                 <application>
       </para>
      </listitem>
 
+     <listitem>
+      <para>
+       Read-only large object descriptors now obey MVCC snapshot semantics
+      </para>
+      <para>
+       When a large object is opened with <literal>INV_READ</> (and not
+       <literal>INV_WRITE</>), the data read from the descriptor will now
+       reflect a <quote>snapshot</> of the large object's state at the
+       time of the transaction snapshot in use by the query that called
+       <function>lo_open()</>.  To obtain the old behavior of always
+       returning the latest committed data, include <literal>INV_WRITE</>
+       in the mode flags for <function>lo_open()</>.
+      </para>
+     </listitem>
+
      <listitem>
       <para>
        In <application>psql</application>, treat unquoted