Re: Assertion failure in hash_kill_items()

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alexander Kuzmenkov <akuzmenkov(at)tigerdata(dot)com>, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu(dot)coek88(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Assertion failure in hash_kill_items()
Date: 2026-04-07 14:38:36
Message-ID: 66439a51-0ff9-4897-b4e5-b6308693bb7f@iki.fi
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On 17/03/2026 19:40, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2026-03-17 19:15:10 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> The second patch simplifies the condition in the 'unlock_page' part. This
>> isn't new, and isn't needed to fix the bug, it just caught my eye while
>> looking at this. I don't understand why the condition was the way it was,
>> checking just 'havePin' seems sufficient and more correct to me. Am I
>> missing something?
>
> I can't see anything either, quite odd. Most likely explanation seems to be
> that something changed during the development of 7c75ef571579.
>
>
> Indeed, the first version of the patch from
> https://postgr.es/m/CAE9k0Pm3KTx93K8_5j6VMzG4h5F%2BSyknxUwXrN-zqSZ9X8ZS3w%40mail.gmail.com
> was using "if (so->hashso_bucket_buf == so->currPos.buf)" both at the start
> and end of _hash_kill_items(). So likely it was just an accident during patch
> revisions.

Thanks for archeological excavation; pushed this second patch now.

- Heikki

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