Re: error context for vacuum to include block number

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:51 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:52 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Another minor point, don't we need to remove the error stack by doing
> > "error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;" in parallel_vacuum_main?
> >
>
> Few other comments:
> 1. The error in lazy_vacuum_heap can either have phase
> VACUUM_ERRCB_PHASE_INDEX_* or VACUUM_ERRCB_PHASE_VACUUM_HEAP depending
> on when it occurs.  If it occurs the first time it enters that
> function before a call to lazy_vacuum_page, it will use phase
> VACUUM_ERRCB_PHASE_INDEX_*, otherwise, it would use
> VACUUM_ERRCB_PHASE_VACUUM_HEAP.  The reason is lazy_vacuum_index or
> lazy_cleanup_index won't reset the phase after leaving that function.
>
> 2. Also once we set phase as VACUUM_ERRCB_PHASE_VACUUM_HEAP via
> lazy_vacuum_page, it doesn't seem to be reset to
> VACUUM_ERRCB_PHASE_SCAN_HEAP even when we do scanning of the heap.  I
> think you need to set phase VACUUM_ERRCB_PHASE_SCAN_HEAP inside loop.
>
> I think we need to be a bit more careful in setting/resetting the
> phase information correctly so that it doesn't display the wrong info
> in the context in an error message.
>

Justin, are you planning to work on the pending comments?  If you
want, I can try to fix some of these.  We have less time left for this
CF, so we need to do things a bit quicker.


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Amit Kapila.
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