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Re: Backpatching nbtree VACUUM (page deletion) hardening

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-09-05T18:22:36Z
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On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 6:51 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> Yes -- nbtree VACUUM generally can cope quite well, even when the
> index is corrupt. It should mostly manage to do what is expected here,
> even with a misbehaving opclass, because it relies as little as
> possible on user-defined opclass code.

I just backpatched the hardening commit from 14 to every supported branch.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan

Commits

  1. Backpatch nbtree page deletion hardening.

  2. nbtree VACUUM: Cope with buggy opclasses.