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Re: pg_amcheck contrib application

Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, "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: 2021-04-30T20:26:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 

> On Apr 30, 2021, at 1:04 PM, Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> 
>> toast value %u was expected to end at chunk %d, but ended while
>> expecting chunk %d
>> 
>> i.e. same as the currently-committed code, except for changing "ended
>> at" to "ended while expecting."
> 
> I find the grammar of this new formulation anomalous for hard to articulate reasons not quite the same as but akin to mismatched verb aspect.

After further reflection, no other verbiage seems any better.  I'd say go ahead and commit it this way.

—
Mark Dilger
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Commits

  1. amcheck: Improve some confusing reports about TOAST problems.

  2. amcheck: Reword some messages and fix an alignment problem.

  3. amcheck: fix multiple problems with TOAST pointer validation

  4. amcheck: Remove duplicate XID/MXID bounds checks.

  5. amcheck: Fix verify_heapam's tuple visibility checking rules.

  6. nbtree VACUUM: Cope with buggy opclasses.

  7. Improve pg_amcheck's TAP test 003_check.pl.

  8. Fix a confusing amcheck corruption message.

  9. Doc: add note about how to run the pg_amcheck regression tests.

  10. In pg_amcheck tests, don't depend on perl's Q/q pack code.

  11. pg_amcheck: Keep trying to fix the tests.

  12. pg_amcheck: Try to fix still more test failures.

  13. Try to avoid apparent platform-dependency in IPC::Run

  14. Fix portability issues in pg_amcheck's 004_verify_heapam.pl.

  15. Try to fix compiler warnings.

  16. Add pg_amcheck, a CLI for contrib/amcheck.

  17. Refactor and generalize the ParallelSlot machinery.

  18. Remove old-style VACUUM FULL (which was known for a little while as