Re: Fix gistkillitems & add regression test to microvacuum

Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>

From: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
To: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-01-23T11:03:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 at 15:30, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
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> > On 15 Jan 2026, at 22:59, Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > PFA v2 which leaves the test in-place.
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> > Also commit message improvements.
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> Yeah, killtuples for GiST root page is broken. Your patch is fixing it.
> I don't think we should backpatch this, the bug is harmless, but for master the patch LGTM.

Thank you

> It would be good to assign so->curBlkno and so->curBlkno together. But gistScanPage() is the only place with access to the block number.

Sorry, didnt get this take.

> +# Test gist, but with fewer rows - that killitems used to be buggy.
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> Probably, in this comment we can explicitly say that killitems was buggy, but now is fixed.
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Hmm, what would be a good wording here?


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Best regards,
Kirill Reshke



Commits

  1. Fix use of wrong variable in _hash_kill_items()