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Re: pg_amcheck contrib application

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "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: 2021-03-11T21:59:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:09 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> An alternate possibility would be to say that there should only ever
> be EITHER a bare command-line argument OR options that require
> querying for a list of databases OR neither BUT NOT both. Then it's
> simple:
>
> 0. If you have both options which require querying for a list of
> databases and also a bare database name, error and die.
> 1. As above.
> 2. As above except the only possibility is now increasing the list of
> target databases from length 0 to length 1.
> 3. As above.

Here's a proposed incremental patch, applying on top of your last
version, that describes the above behavior, plus makes a lot of other
changes to the documentation that seemed like good ideas to me. Your
mileage may vary, but I think this version is substantially more
concise than what you have while basically containing the same
information.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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