Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > I'm chasing an apparent index corruption problem, and I came across
> > something I can't quite explain in pg_filedump.  Say I dump a non-leaf
> > btree index page:
> 
> I think this is actually OK.  Remember that in a non-rightmost page,
> item 1 is the high key not a data entry.

Oh, BTW, this is not what's corrupted about this index -- I just had
trouble following what pg_filedump was reporting.  The corruption is
more subtle: vacuum cannot find the parent page when trying to mark a
page for deletion.

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