Re: BUG #17386: btree index corruption after reindex concurrently on write heavy table

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Maxim Boguk <maxim(dot)boguk(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #17386: btree index corruption after reindex concurrently on write heavy table
Date: 2022-01-29 05:43:08
Message-ID: YfTT7BBonfQYLPdX@paquier.xyz
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 07:00:31PM -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> If I had to guess, then I'd guess that this has something to do with
> orphaned HOT chains, like those we saw in the bug report that led to
> bugfix commit 18b87b20 (which is in 14.2 but not 14.1). I could easily
> be wrong about that, so take it with a grain of salt. I find it a
> little suspicious that we're hearing about a REINDEX CONCURRENTLY
> problem in Postgres 14, which is much less mature than Postgres 12
> (where REINDEX CONCURRENTLY first appeared).

Possible, but hard to say without an actual proof. Maxim, if the
problem is reproducible easily on your end, could you give a try to v12
and v13 and see if it happens as well there?
--
Michael

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