Re: VACUUM can finish an interrupted nbtree page split -- is that okay?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: VACUUM can finish an interrupted nbtree page split -- is that okay?
Date: 2019-05-14 03:29:59
Message-ID: 13136.1557804599@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> writes:
> To be fair, I suppose that the code made more sense when it first went
> in, because at the time there was a chance that there could be
> leftover half-dead internal pages. But, that was a long time ago now.

Is there a good reason to assume there are none left anywhere?

regards, tom lane

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