Re: trap instead of error on 32 TiB table - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: trap instead of error on 32 TiB table
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Msg-id 7528b15d-ba0e-5bd9-4cf8-26ca9d627066@iki.fi
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In response to Re: trap instead of error on 32 TiB table  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses The End of the WAL
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On 09/09/2021 17:25, Tom Lane wrote:
> Having done that, the check in md.c could be reduced to an Assert,
> although there's something to be said for leaving it as-is as an
> extra layer of defense.

Some operations call smgrextend() directly, like B-tree index creation. 
We don't want those operations to hit an assertion either.

- Heikki



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