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Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix freezing of a dead HOT-updated tuple

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, "Wood, Dan" <hexpert@amazon.com>, pgsql-committers@postgresql.org, "Wong, Yi Wen" <yiwong@amazon.com>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-12-15T19:15:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> The elog(), which was itself upgraded from a simple Assert by commit
> d70cf811, appears in exactly the same form in 9.3+. Things did change
> there, but they were kept in sync.

BTW, if you're going to do it, I would target the similar error within
validate_index_heapscan(), too. That was also added by d70cf811.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan

Commits

  1. Backport addition of rs_old_rel to rewriteheap's state.

  2. Perform a lot more sanity checks when freezing tuples.

  3. Revert bogus fixes of HOT-freezing bug

  4. Fix traversal of half-frozen update chains

  5. Fix freezing of a dead HOT-updated tuple

  6. During index build, check and elog (not just Assert) for broken HOT chain.

  7. Fix WAL replay of locking an updated tuple

  8. Change the way we mark tuples as frozen.