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Re: pg_amcheck contrib application

Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Andrey M. Borodin" <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-03-12T16:41:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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> On Mar 12, 2021, at 5:33 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, OK. In that case I guess we need to patch the docs a little
> more. Here's a patch documentation that revised behavior, and also
> tidying up a few other things I noticed along the way.
> 
> Since nobody is saying we *shouldn't* move this to src/bin, I think
> you may as well go put it there per Peter's suggestion.
> 
> Then I think it's time to get this committed and move on to the next thing.

In this next patch, your documentation patch has been applied, and the whole project has been relocated from contrib/pg_amcheck to src/bin/pg_amcheck.

Commits

  1. amcheck: Improve some confusing reports about TOAST problems.

  2. amcheck: Reword some messages and fix an alignment problem.

  3. amcheck: fix multiple problems with TOAST pointer validation

  4. amcheck: Remove duplicate XID/MXID bounds checks.

  5. amcheck: Fix verify_heapam's tuple visibility checking rules.

  6. nbtree VACUUM: Cope with buggy opclasses.

  7. Improve pg_amcheck's TAP test 003_check.pl.

  8. Fix a confusing amcheck corruption message.

  9. Doc: add note about how to run the pg_amcheck regression tests.

  10. In pg_amcheck tests, don't depend on perl's Q/q pack code.

  11. pg_amcheck: Keep trying to fix the tests.

  12. pg_amcheck: Try to fix still more test failures.

  13. Try to avoid apparent platform-dependency in IPC::Run

  14. Fix portability issues in pg_amcheck's 004_verify_heapam.pl.

  15. Try to fix compiler warnings.

  16. Add pg_amcheck, a CLI for contrib/amcheck.

  17. Refactor and generalize the ParallelSlot machinery.

  18. Remove old-style VACUUM FULL (which was known for a little while as