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Re: Allow cancelling VACUUM of nbtrees with corrupted right links

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2018-07-04T23:07:12Z
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Hi,

On 2018-06-27 12:16:29 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> I think we should backpatch those checks - it's a fairly nasty situation
> for users to not be able to even drop an index without going to single
> user mode.

Did that back to 9.4 - before that page deletion and splits worked
differently enough that it seems higher risk to add the checks there.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Check for interrupts inside the nbtree page deletion code.