Re: "failed to find parent tuple for heap-only tuple" error as anERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTION ereport()

On 12/15/17 5:31 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> Commit d70cf811, from 2014, promoted an Assert() within
> IndexBuildHeapScan() to a "can't happen" elog() error, in order to
> detect when a parent tuple cannot be found for some heap-only tuple --
> if this happens, then it indicates corruption. I think that we should
> make it a full ereport(), with an errcode of ERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTION,
> to match what Andres just added to code that deals with freezing (he
> promoted Assert()s to errors, just like the 2014 commit, though he
> went as far as making them ereport()s to begin with). Attached patch
> does this.
> 
> I propose a backpatch to 9.3, partially for the sake of tools like
> amcheck, where users may only be on the lookout for
> ERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTION and ERRCODE_INDEX_CORRUPTED.

This patch applies, passes testing, and appears very straight-forward to
me.  Are there any tests for these conditions currently, or are you only
doing that in amcheck?

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-David
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