Re: [HACKERS] Re: PANIC: invalid index offnum: 186 when processingBRIN indexes in VACUUM - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: PANIC: invalid index offnum: 186 when processingBRIN indexes in VACUUM
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Msg-id 20171101161547.64hf4zssicrgkeaf@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Re: PANIC: invalid index offnum: 186 when processingBRIN indexes in VACUUM  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Re: PANIC: invalid index offnum: 186 when processing BRIN indexes in VACUUM  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tomas Vondra wrote:
> 
> > FWIW I can reproduce this on 9.5, and I don't even need to run the
> > UPDATE part. That is, INSERT + VACUUM running concurrently is enough to
> > produce broken BRIN indexes :-(
> 
> Hmm, I'm pretty sure we stress-tested brin in pretty much the same way.
> But I see this misbehavior too.  Looking ...

Turns out that this is related to concurrent growth of the table while
the summarization process is scanning -- so new pages have appeared at
the end of the table after the end point has been determined.  It would
be a pain to determine number of blocks for each range, so I'm looking
for a simple way to fix it without imposing so much overhead.

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