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Re: BUG #16833: postgresql 13.1 process crash every hour

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Alex F <phoedos16@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-05-14T22:10:01Z
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On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 1:13 PM Alex F <phoedos16@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your support!

I just pushed a commit that adds hardening that will be sufficient to
prevent this being a hard crash. Of course the index should not become
corrupt in the first place, but at least in Postgres 13.4 the same
scenario will result in an error rather than in a hard crash.

Thanks
-- 
Peter Geoghegan

Commits

  1. Harden nbtree deduplication posting split code.