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Re: new heapcheck contrib module

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>, Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-09-23T01:17:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 2:09 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> +REVOKE ALL ON FUNCTION
>> +verify_heapam(regclass, boolean, boolean, cstring, bigint, bigint)
>> +FROM PUBLIC;
>> 
>> This too.

> Do we really want to use a cstring as an enum-like argument?

Ugh.  We should not be using cstring as a SQL-exposed datatype
unless there really is no alternative.  Why wasn't this argument
declared "text"?

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Add pg_amcheck, a CLI for contrib/amcheck.

  2. Refactor and generalize the ParallelSlot machinery.

  3. Generalize parallel slot result handling.

  4. Move some code from src/bin/scripts to src/fe_utils to permit reuse.

  5. Factor pattern-construction logic out of processSQLNamePattern.

  6. Doc: clean up verify_heapam() documentation.

  7. Fix more portability issues in new amcheck code.

  8. Fix portability issues in new amcheck test.

  9. Try to avoid a compiler warning about using fxid uninitialized.

  10. Extend amcheck to check heap pages.

  11. Adjust walsender usage of xlogreader, simplify APIs

  12. Improve checking of child pages in contrib/amcheck.

  13. Sanitize line pointers within contrib/amcheck.

  14. Fix possible sorting error when aborting use of abbreviated keys.