Re: [HACKERS] Re: Bug#43221: postgresql: When disk is full, insert corrupts indices - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Vadim Mikheev
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: Bug#43221: postgresql: When disk is full, insert corrupts indices
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Msg-id 37BCE981.A457449B@krs.ru
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In response to Re: Bug#43221: postgresql: When disk is full, insert corrupts indices  ("Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Re: Bug#43221: postgresql: When disk is full, insert corrupts indices
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Oliver Elphick wrote:
> 
> camm@enhanced.com wrote:
>   >Package: postgresql
>   >Version: 6.5.1-6
> 
> I'm forwarding this to the hackers list, because it presumably is an issue
> to be addressed in the code for rolling back an aborted transaction.  I
> suppose that there is nothing there to handle the case that the index file
> runs out of diskspace and that therefore the index became corrupt.

Whenever index insert fails (for _any_ reason) index may be
corrupted. I hope to address this with WAL...

Vadim


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