On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 5:21 PM Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> All this leads me to believe that we should report the following:
>
> 1) If the total number of chunks retrieved differs from the expected number, report how many we expected vs. how many
wegot
> 2) If the chunk_seq numbers are discontiguous, report each discontiguity.
> 3) If the index scan returned chunks out of chunk_seq order, report that
> 4) If any chunk is not the expected size, report that
>
> So, for your example of chunk 1 missing from chunks [0..17], we'd report that we got one fewer chunks than we
expected,that the second chunk seen was discontiguous from the first chunk seen, that the final chunk seen was smaller
thanexpected by M bytes, and that the total size was smaller than we expected by N bytes. The third of those is
somewhatmisleading, since the final chunk was presumably the right size; we just weren't expecting to hit a partial
chunkquite yet. But I don't see how to make that better in the general case.
Hmm, that might be OK. It seems like it's going to be a bit verbose in
simple cases like 1 missing chunk, but on the plus side, it avoids a
mountain of output if the raw size has been overwritten with a
gigantic bogus value. But, how is #2 different from #3? Those sound
like the same thing to me.
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Robert Haas
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