Re: error context for vacuum to include block number - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 02:25:14PM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > Yea, and it would be misleading if we reported "while scanning block..of
> > relation" if we actually failed while writing its FSM.
> >
> > My previous patches did this:
> >
> > +               case VACUUM_ERRCB_PHASE_VACUUM_FSM:
> > +                       errcontext("while vacuuming free space map of relation \"%s.%s\"",
> > +                                       cbarg->relnamespace, cbarg->relname);
> > +                       break;
> >
> 
> In what kind of errors will this help?

If there's an I/O error on an _fsm file, for one.

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Justin