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Re: BUG #17255: Server crashes in index_delete_sort_cmp() due to race condition with vacuum

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-01-10T19:31:58Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 8:57 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Given the lack of further discussion, let's go with the "minimal" fix and your
> stuff later. Attached is further polished patch - no significant changes,
> plenty copy-editing stuff.

We have roughly 3 weeks to get this into 14.2. Can you push your
minimal fix soon? Any blockers?

Thanks
-- 
Peter Geoghegan

Commits

  1. vacuumlazy.c: Standardize rel_pages terminology.

  2. vacuumlazy.c: document vistest and OldestXmin.

  3. heap pruning: Only call BufferGetBlockNumber() once.

  4. Fix possible HOT corruption when RECENTLY_DEAD changes to DEAD while pruning.

  5. Assert redirect pointers are sensible after heap_page_prune().

  6. Remove tupgone special case from vacuumlazy.c.

  7. Recycle nbtree pages deleted during same VACUUM.

  8. snapshot scalability: Don't compute global horizons while building snapshots.

  9. Refactor heap_page_prune so that instead of changing item states on-the-fly,