Re: Bug in batch tuplesort memory CLUSTER case (9.6 only)

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bug in batch tuplesort memory CLUSTER case (9.6 only)
Date: 2016-07-03 03:47:20
Message-ID: CAM3SWZSUEJ_OfpJkcAOz7e6QtQP941d3Es4Wc1+WGDZOJpZH4Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> In the interest of clarity, I was not intending to say that there
> should be a regression test in the patch. I was intending to say that
> there should be a test case with the bug report. I'm not opposed to
> adding a regression test, and I like the idea of attempting to do so
> while requiring only a relatively small amount of data by changing
> maintenance_work_mem, but that wasn't the target at which I was
> aiming. Nevertheless, carry on.

How do you feel about adding testing to tuplesort.c not limited to
hitting this bug (when Valgrind memcheck is used)?

Are you satisfied that I have adequately described steps to reproduce?

--
Peter Geoghegan

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