Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sep 15, 2012, at 11:32 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Right, but we do a shutdown checkpoint at the end of crash recovery.

> Yes, but that only writes the buffers that are dirty. It doesn't fix the lack 
> of a BM_PERMANENT flag on a buffer that ought to have had one. So that page 
> can now get modified AGAIN, after recovery, and not checkpointed.

Ugh.  Yeah, we need to fix this ASAP.  I've notified pgsql-packagers to
expect a release this week.

                        regards, tom lane


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