Re: some question about _bt_getbuf - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: some question about _bt_getbuf
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Msg-id 27931.1526320181@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to some question about _bt_getbuf  (自己 <zoulx1982@163.com>)
Responses Re:Re: some question about _bt_getbuf  (自己 <zoulx1982@163.com>)
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=?GBK?B?19S8ug==?= <zoulx1982@163.com> writes:
> i run test using pg10.0 on my machine, and the program crashed on _bt_getbuf.
> And i found the following code:
> the routine _bt_page_recyclable say maybe the page is all-zero page, if so
> then the code run (BTPageOpaque) PageGetSpecialPointer(page); it will be failed because
> it access invalid memory.
> I don't know whether it is so. Look forward t your reply, thanks.

This code's clearly broken, as was discussed before:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2628.1474272158%40localhost

but nothing was done about it, perhaps partly because we didn't have
a reproducible test case.  Do you have one?

            regards, tom lane


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