Re: ANALYZE: ERROR: tuple already updated by self

Hi,

On 2019-06-18 17:00:09 -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 4:49 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> > Sure:
> >
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  errfinish (dummy=0) at elog.c:414
> > #1  0x000000000085e834 in elog_finish (elevel=<value optimized out>, fmt=<value optimized out>) at elog.c:1376
> > #2  0x00000000004b93bd in simple_heap_update (relation=0x7fee161700c8, otid=0x1fb7f44, tup=0x1fb7f40) at heapam.c:4613
> > #3  0x000000000051bdb7 in CatalogTupleUpdate (heapRel=0x7fee161700c8, otid=0x1fb7f44, tup=0x1fb7f40) at indexing.c:234
> 
> It might be interesting to set a breakpoint within heap_update(),
> which is called by simple_heap_update() --technically, this is where
> the reported failure occurs. From there, you could send an image of
> the page to the list by following the procedure described here:
> 
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Getting_a_stack_trace_of_a_running_PostgreSQL_backend_on_Linux/BSD#Dumping_a_page_image_from_within_GDB
> 
> You'll have to hit "next" a few times, until heap_update()'s "page"
> variable is initialized.

Hm, what are you hoping to glean by doing so?

Greetings,

Andres Freund