Re: [PATCH] Improve amcheck to also check UNIQUE constraint in btree index.

Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>

From: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Maxim Orlov <orlovmg@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Maxim Orlov <m.orlov@postgrespro.ru>, lubennikovaav@gmail.com
Date: 2024-04-24T09:58:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. amcheck: Optimize speed of checking for unique constraint violation

  2. amcheck: Report an error when the next page to a leaf is not a leaf

  3. amcheck: Don't load the right sibling page into BtreeCheckState

  4. amcheck: Refactoring the storage of the last visible entry

  5. Teach contrib/amcheck to check the unique constraint violation

  6. Add macros in hash and btree AMs to get the special area of their pages

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 9:38 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
> On 24.10.23 22:13, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 11:44 AM Aleksander Alekseev
> > <aleksander@timescale.com> wrote:
> >>> I think, this patch was marked as "Waiting on Author", probably, by mistake. Since recent changes were done without any significant code changes and CF bot how happy again.
> >>>
> >>> I'm going to move it to RfC, could I? If not, please tell why.
> >>
> >> I restored the "Ready for Committer" state. I don't think it's a good
> >> practice to change the state every time the patch has a slight
> >> conflict or something. This is not helpful at all. Such things happen
> >> quite regularly and typically are fixed in a couple of days.
> >
> > This patch seems useful to me.  I went through the thread, it seems
> > that all the critics are addressed.
> >
> > I've rebased this patch.   Also, I've run perltidy for tests, split
> > long errmsg() into errmsg(), errdetail() and errhint(), and do other
> > minor enchantments.
> >
> > I think this patch is ready to go.  I'm going to push it if there are
> > no objections.
>
> I just found the new pg_amcheck option --checkunique in PG17-to-be.
> Could we rename this to --check-unique?  Seems friendlier.  Maybe also
> rename the bt_index_check function argument to check_unique.

+1 from me
Let's do so if nobody objects.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov