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Re: Re: PANIC: invalid index offnum: 186 when processing BRIN indexes in VACUUM

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-10-31T03:59:00Z
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Tom Lane wrote:

> So: I put the blame on the fact that summarize_range() thinks that
> the tuple offset it has for the placeholder tuple is guaranteed to
> hold good, even across possibly-long intervals where it's holding
> no lock on the containing buffer.

Yeah, I think this is a pretty reasonable explanation for the problem.
I don't understand why it doesn't fail in 9.6.

> Fixing this without creating new problems is beyond my familiarity
> with the BRIN code.  It looks like it might be nontrivial :-(

Looking.

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Commits

  1. Fix BRIN summarization concurrent with extension

  2. Fix corner-case errors in brin_doupdate().

  3. Rewrite PageIndexDeleteNoCompact into a form that only deletes 1 tuple.

  4. Invent PageIndexTupleOverwrite, and teach BRIN and GiST to use it.

  5. Close some holes in BRIN page assignment