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> The primary reason we migrated away from Google SQL for PostgreSQL is because we discovered a bug that was causing data corruption

Is anyone familiar with the details of the data corruption bug? I'm using Cloud SQL and would like to understand the risk.



My Cloud SQL instance is currently on 9.6.6, I just got an email from GCP saying they are upgrading to 9.6.11 next week. There is a data corruption bug mentioned in the 9.6.7 release notes, not sure if it's the one the author is referring to.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/release-9-6-7.html

"Fix vacuuming of tuples that were updated while key-share locked (Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera)

In some cases VACUUM would fail to remove such tuples even though they are now dead, leading to assorted data corruption scenarios."




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