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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: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, "Andrey M. Borodin" <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-10-22T20:31:59Z
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Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> On Oct 22, 2020, at 1:09 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> ooh, looks like prairiedog sees the problem too.  That means I should be
>> able to reproduce it under a debugger, if you're not certain yet where
>> the problem lies.

> Thanks, Tom, but I question whether the regression test failures are from a problem in the verify_heapam.c code.  I think they are a busted perl test.  The test was supposed to corrupt the heap by overwriting a heap file with a large chunk of garbage, but in fact only wrote a small amount of garbage.  The idea was to write about 2000 bytes starting at offset 32 in the page, in order to corrupt the line pointers, but owing to my incorrect use of syswrite in the perl test, that didn't happen.

Hm, but why are we seeing the failure only on specific machine
architectures?  sparc64 and ppc32 is a weird pairing, too.

			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.