Re: new heapcheck contrib module

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, 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: 2020-10-22T20:00:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 3:15 PM Mark Dilger
<mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> The 0001 attached patch addresses the -Werror=maybe-uninitialized problem.

I am skeptical. Why so much code churn to fix a compiler warning? And
even in the revised code, *status isn't set in all cases, so I don't
see why this would satisfy the compiler. Even if it satisfies this
particular compiler for some other reason, some other compiler is
bound to be unhappy sometime. It's better to just arrange to set
*status always, and use a dummy value in cases where it doesn't
matter. Also, "return XID_BOUNDS_OK;;" has exceeded its recommended
allowance of semicolons.

-- 
Robert Haas
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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.