Re: display offset along with block number in vacuum errors

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 11:18:43PM +0530, Mahendra Singh Thalor wrote:
> In commit b61d161(Introduce vacuum errcontext to display additional
> information), we added vacuum errcontext to display additional
> information(block number) so that in case of vacuum error, we can identify
> which block we are getting error. Addition to block number, if we can
> display offset, then it will be more helpful for users. So to display
> offset, here proposing two different methods(Thanks Robert for suggesting
> these 2 methods):

new_rel_pages = count_nondeletable_pages(onerel, vacrelstats);
vacrelstats->blkno = new_rel_pages;
+ vacrelstats->offnum = InvalidOffsetNumber;

Adding more context would be interesting for some cases, but not all
contrary to what your patch does in some code paths like
lazy_truncate_heap() as you would show up an offset of 0 for an
invalid value. This could confuse some users. Note that we are
careful enough to not print a context message if the block number is
invalid.
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Michael