Re: [HACKERS] A design for amcheck heapam verification

On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
> I should point out that I shipped virtually the same code yesterday,
> as v1.1 of the Github version of amcheck (also known as amcheck_next).
> Early adopters will be able to use this new "heapallindexed"
> functionality in the next few days, once packages become available for
> the apt and yum community repos. Just as before, the Github version
> will work on versions of Postgres >= 9.4.
>
> This seems like good timing on my part, because we know that this new
> "heapallindexed" verification will detect the "freeze the dead" bugs
> that the next point release is set to have fixes for -- that is
> actually kind of how one of the bugs was found [1]. We may even want
> to advertise the available of this check within amcheck_next, in the
> release notes for the next Postgres point release.

My apologies for slacking here. I would still welcome some regression
tests to stress the bloom API you are proposing! For now I am moving
this patch to next CF.
--
Michael