Hi,
On 2024-05-16 16:13:35 -0400, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 3:39 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > Melanies reproducer works because there are catalog accesses that can trigger
> > a recomputation of fuzzy horizon. For testing the "easy" window for that is
> > the vac_open_indexes() < 16, because it happens after determining the horizon,
> > but before actually vacuuming.
>
> What about the call to GetOldestNonRemovableTransactionId() that takes
> place in _bt_pendingfsm_finalize()?
Ah, good catch! That'd do it.
> > Now I wonder if there is some codepath triggering catalog lookups during bulk
> > delete.
>
> I don't think that there's any rule that says that VACUUM cannot do
> catalog lookups during bulk deletions. B-Tree page deletion needs to
> generate an insertion scan key, so that it can "refind" a page
> undergoing deletion. That might require catalog lookups.
I'm not saying there's a hard rule against it. Just that there wasn't an
immediately apparent, nor immediately observable, path for it. As I didn't see
the path to the horizon recomputation, I didn't know how a btbulkdelete in the
middle of the scan would potentially trigger the problem.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
