Re: reporting TID/table with corruption error

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: reporting TID/table with corruption error
Date: 2021-08-19 16:44:09
Message-ID: CAH2-WzmCLNK09r_C+A9ZxmmdZ2AjgDGyCJjVYWBun2LUws_gJw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 9:38 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> A customer recently hit this error message:
>
> ERROR: t_xmin is uncommitted in tuple to be updated
>
> This was not very informative, so without any clues, we had to let it
> go. But it did occur to me that we can improve this message so that we
> know details such as the TID and the relation that caused the issue, so
> that if it ever occurs again we can at least look at the WAL stream for
> anything affecting the tuple, maybe it'd help to understand the problem.

I think that this is a very good idea. Ideally this stuff would be
more standardized.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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