Re: BufFileRead() error signalling - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: BufFileRead() error signalling
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Msg-id CA+TgmoZEmoMLfSmtSOqYwadAGsejzZkT5MMgpRxE1a=uhoPEoQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: BufFileRead() error signalling  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 12:16 PM Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I do have evidence of postgres crashes because of a problem that could
> be explained by this bug, so I +1 backpatching this to all supported
> branches.
>
> (The problem I saw is a hash-join spilling data to temp tablespace,
> which fills up but somehow goes undetected, then when reading the data
> back it causes heap_fill_tuple to crash.)

FWIW, that seems like a plenty good enough reason for back-patching to me.

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Robert Haas
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