Re: BufFileRead() error signalling

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar(dot)ahmad(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BufFileRead() error signalling
Date: 2020-05-27 16:29:00
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZEmoMLfSmtSOqYwadAGsejzZkT5MMgpRxE1a=uhoPEoQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 12:16 PM Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> I do have evidence of postgres crashes because of a problem that could
> be explained by this bug, so I +1 backpatching this to all supported
> branches.
>
> (The problem I saw is a hash-join spilling data to temp tablespace,
> which fills up but somehow goes undetected, then when reading the data
> back it causes heap_fill_tuple to crash.)

FWIW, that seems like a plenty good enough reason for back-patching to me.

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Robert Haas
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