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From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Backpatching nbtree VACUUM (page deletion) hardening
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Msg-id CAH2-Wzm9OBaQPmSZqxAy_PmUzDHa1xywqcQL4E=2LAeWXDL5EA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Backpatching nbtree VACUUM (page deletion) hardening  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
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On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 6:51 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> Yes -- nbtree VACUUM generally can cope quite well, even when the
> index is corrupt. It should mostly manage to do what is expected here,
> even with a misbehaving opclass, because it relies as little as
> possible on user-defined opclass code.

I just backpatched the hardening commit from 14 to every supported branch.

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Peter Geoghegan

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