Re: [HACKERS] Re: Bug#43221: postgresql: When disk is full, insert corrupts indices

From: Vadim Mikheev <vadim(at)krs(dot)ru>
To: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: Bug#43221: postgresql: When disk is full, insert corrupts indices
Date: 1999-08-20 05:37:05
Message-ID: 37BCE981.A457449B@krs.ru
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Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
> camm(at)enhanced(dot)com wrote:
> >Package: postgresql
> >Version: 6.5.1-6
>
> I'm forwarding this to the hackers list, because it presumably is an issue
> to be addressed in the code for rolling back an aborted transaction. I
> suppose that there is nothing there to handle the case that the index file
> runs out of diskspace and that therefore the index became corrupt.

Whenever index insert fails (for _any_ reason) index may be
corrupted. I hope to address this with WAL...

Vadim

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