Re: [HACKERS] B-tree page deletion boundary cases

2012-04-24 Thread Nikhil Sontakke
Was wondering if there's a similar bug which gets triggered while using VACUUM FULL. See for instance this thread: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/index-corruption-in-PG-8-3-13-td4257589.html This issue has been reported on-off from time to time and in most cases VACUUM or

Re: [HACKERS] B-tree page deletion boundary cases

2012-04-24 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Noah Misch n...@leadboat.com wrote: As I mentioned[1] peripherally back in November, that algorithm has been insufficient since the introduction of non-XID-bearing transactions in PostgreSQL 8.3.  Such transactions do not restrain RecentXmin.  If no running

Re: [HACKERS] B-tree page deletion boundary cases

2012-04-24 Thread Noah Misch
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 09:08:36AM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Noah Misch n...@leadboat.com wrote: The fix is to compare the stored XID to RecentGlobalXmin, not RecentXmin. ?We already use RecentGlobalXmin when wal_level = hot_standby. ?If no running

Re: [HACKERS] B-tree page deletion boundary cases

2012-04-23 Thread Noah Misch
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 12:13:34AM +0530, Nikhil Sontakke wrote: Was wondering if there's a similar bug which gets triggered while using VACUUM FULL. See for instance this thread: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/index-corruption-in-PG-8-3-13-td4257589.html This issue has been

[HACKERS] B-tree page deletion boundary cases

2012-04-21 Thread Noah Misch
For the sake of concurrency, our B-tree implementation has a phased process for reusing empty pages. Excerpting from nbtree/README: A deleted page cannot be reclaimed immediately, since there may be other processes waiting to reference it (ie, search processes that just left the

Re: [HACKERS] B-tree page deletion boundary cases

2012-04-21 Thread Nikhil Sontakke
Hi Noah, Was wondering if there's a similar bug which gets triggered while using VACUUM FULL. See for instance this thread: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/index-corruption-in-PG-8-3-13-td4257589.html This issue has been reported on-off from time to time and in most cases VACUUM or