Re: Draft release notes for minor releases are up - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Noah Misch
Subject Re: Draft release notes for minor releases are up
Date
Msg-id 20240203022724.08@rfd.leadboat.com
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In response to Re: Draft release notes for minor releases are up  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 08:18:50PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> > Shall the top of the notes advise to reindex GIN indexes?
> 
> I thought about that, but it's a pretty low-probability failure
> I think, so I didn't write that advice.  Maybe I misjudged it.

I can see there being failures so low-probability to omit that text, e.g. a
failure identified theoretically and requiring a process to lose the CPU for
hours.  For this one, the reporter seems to have arrived at it without a
deliberate search.  This one just needs a recovery at the right WAL record,
then two processes reaching the incomplete split concurrently.



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