pgsql: Check block number against the correct fork in get_raw_page(). - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Check block number against the correct fork in get_raw_page().
Date
Msg-id E1X9cH7-0006Xn-NB@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Check block number against the correct fork in get_raw_page().

get_raw_page tried to validate the supplied block number against
RelationGetNumberOfBlocks(), which of course is only right when
accessing the main fork.  In most cases, the main fork is longer
than the others, so that the check was too weak (allowing a
lower-level error to be reported, but no real harm to be done).
However, very small tables could have an FSM larger than their heap,
in which case the mistake prevented access to some FSM pages.
Per report from Torsten Foertsch.

In passing, make the bad-block-number error into an ereport not elog
(since it's certainly not an internal error); and fix sloppily
maintained comment for RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork.

This has been wrong since we invented relation forks, so back-patch
to all supported branches.

Branch
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REL9_4_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1ea941450bca70ec9e30c2936e99835f9649f865

Modified Files
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contrib/pageinspect/rawpage.c       |    8 +++++---
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c |    4 ++--
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


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