Re: HOT chain validation in verify_heapam()

Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>

From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>

To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Himanshu Upadhyaya <upadhyaya.himanshu@gmail.com>

Date: 2022-11-09T14:06:58Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Hi Himanshu,

> Test cases are now part of this v6 patch.

I believe the patch is in pretty good shape now. I'm going to change
its status to "Ready for Committer" soon unless there are going to be
any objections.

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

Commits

amcheck: Generalize one of the recently-added update chain checks.
- c87aff065c33 16.0 landed
amcheck: Tighten up validation of redirect line pointers.
- 80d5e3a61551 16.0 landed
amcheck: Fix verify_heapam for tuples where xmin or xmax is 0.
- 8fd5aa76c367 14.8 landed
- 701ec5557968 15.3 landed
- e88754a1965c 16.0 landed
amcheck: Fix a few bugs in new update chain validation.
- 949e2e7c4f68 16.0 landed
Fix new test case to work on (some?) big-endian architectures.
- c75a623304bc 16.0 landed
Don't test HEAP_XMAX_INVALID when freezing xmax.
- 02d647bbf057 16.0 landed