Re: BUG #5989: Assertion failure on UPDATE of big value

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5989: Assertion failure on UPDATE of big value
Date: 2011-04-20 19:37:41
Message-ID: 16593.1303328261@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> If I'm reading this correctly, it would appear that nobody has
> updated anything to a TOASTed value in a build against HEAD in
> testing *anything* in the last two and a half months. And the
> regression tests don't include a single UPDATE to a TOASTed value
> anywhere. That seems like a significant code coverage deficiency.

> Attached is a patch to cure the latter of these. I'm submitting
> this separately since it seems a good idea regardless of what
> happens with the related SSI issue.

Hmm, is there much regression coverage for TOAST inserts or deletes
either?

regards, tom lane

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