Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix freezing of a dead HOT-updated tuple

Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 7:47 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> > Fix freezing of a dead HOT-updated tuple
>
> If I run Dan Wood's test case again, the obvious symptom (spurious
> duplicates) goes away. However, the enhanced amcheck, and thus CREATE
> INDEX/REINDEX, still isn't happy about this:
>
> postgres=# select bt_index_check('t_pkey', true);
> DEBUG: 00000: verifying presence of required tuples in index "t_pkey"
> LOCATION: bt_check_every_level, verify_nbtree.c:424
> ERROR: XX000: failed to find parent tuple for heap-only tuple at
> (0,6) in table "t"
> LOCATION: IndexBuildHeapRangeScan, index.c:2597
> Time: 3.699 ms

... Rats, I obviously missed the message where you said that amcheck
detected this problem.

Odd that it's not fixed. I guess there's still some more work to do
here ...

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