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 20171103195615.beqy4vcrlnx4pujn@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>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> I think your argument is sensible for some uses (where people run manual
> VACUUM after loading data) but not others (where people just use manual
> VACUUM in place of autovacuuming -- because they don't trust autovac, or
> the schedule isn't convenient, or whatever other reason).  I've seen
> both things being done in production.

BTW I also noticed that creating an index does summarize the first range
(rather than leaving it empty, as this rationale would suggest).  I
think we changed this at the last minute before commit in 9.5 and never
revisited; I'm inclined to change it for pg11 (but not now, of course).

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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