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Re: new heapcheck contrib module

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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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: 2020-10-22T22:15:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 4:04 PM Mark Dilger
<mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> I think the compiler warning was about fxid not being set.  The callers pass NULL for status if they don't want status checked, so writing *status unconditionally would be an error.  Also, if the xid being checked is out of bounds, we can't check the status of the xid in clog.

Sorry, you're (partly) right. The new logic is a lot more clear that
we never used that uninitialized.

I'll remove the extra semi-colon and commit this.

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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.