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Re: [PATCH] Improve amcheck to also check UNIQUE constraint in btree index.

Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
To: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Maxim Orlov <orlovmg@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Maxim Orlov <m.orlov@postgrespro.ru>, lubennikovaav@gmail.com
Date: 2024-05-17T19:10:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. amcheck: Optimize speed of checking for unique constraint violation

  2. amcheck: Report an error when the next page to a leaf is not a leaf

  3. amcheck: Don't load the right sibling page into BtreeCheckState

  4. amcheck: Refactoring the storage of the last visible entry

  5. Teach contrib/amcheck to check the unique constraint violation

  6. Add macros in hash and btree AMs to get the special area of their pages


> On May 17, 2024, at 11:51 AM, Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Amcheck with checkunique option does check uniqueness violation between pages. But it doesn't warranty detection of cross page uniqueness violations in extremely rare cases when the first equal index entry on the next page corresponds to tuple that is not visible (e.g. dead). In this, I followed the Peter's notion [1] that checking across a number of dead equal entries that could theoretically span even across many pages is an unneeded code complication and amcheck is not a tool that provides any warranty when checking an index.

This confuses me a bit.  The regression test creates a table and index but never performs any DELETE nor any UPDATE operations, so none of the index entries should be dead.  If I am understanding you correct, I'd be forced to conclude that the uniqueness checking code is broken.  Can you take a look?

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