Re: Re: PANIC: invalid index offnum: 186 when processing BRIN indexes in VACUUM

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: PANIC: invalid index offnum: 186 when processing BRIN indexes in VACUUM
Date: 2017-11-02 16:20:48
Message-ID: 30317.1509639648@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
>> Hmm, I'm pretty sure we stress-tested brin in pretty much the same way.
>> But I see this misbehavior too. Looking ...

> Turns out that this is related to concurrent growth of the table while
> the summarization process is scanning -- so new pages have appeared at
> the end of the table after the end point has been determined. It would
> be a pain to determine number of blocks for each range, so I'm looking
> for a simple way to fix it without imposing so much overhead.

Where are we on this --- do you want me to push the brin_doupdate
fix I proposed, or were you intending to merge that into a
larger patch? If I'm to do it, is there a reason not to back-patch
to all branches with BRIN?

regards, tom lane

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