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Re: trap instead of error on 32 TiB table

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Christoph Berg <christoph.berg@credativ.de>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-09-09T19:54:32Z
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On 09/09/2021 17:25, Tom Lane wrote:
> Having done that, the check in md.c could be reduced to an Assert,
> although there's something to be said for leaving it as-is as an
> extra layer of defense.

Some operations call smgrextend() directly, like B-tree index creation. 
We don't want those operations to hit an assertion either.

- Heikki

Commits

  1. Check for relation length overrun soon enough.