Re: display offset along with block number in vacuum errors

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 7:18 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 7:51 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 07:39:21PM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:09 AM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > lazy_check_needs_freeze iterates over blocks and this patch changes it to
> > > > update vacrelstats.  I think it should do what
> > > > lazy_{vacuum/cleanup}_heap/page/index do and call update_vacuum_error_info() at
> > > > its beginning (even though only the offset is changed), and then
> > > > restore_vacuum_error_info() at its end (to "revert back" to the item number it
> > > > started with).
> > > >
> > >
> > > I see that Mahendra has changed patch as per this suggestion but I am
> > > not convinced that it is a good idea to sprinkle
> > > update_vacuum_error_info()/restore_vacuum_error_info() at places more
> > > than required. I see that it might look a bit clean from the
> > > perspective that if tomorrow we use the function
> > > lazy_check_needs_freeze() for a different purpose then we don't need
> > > to worry about the wrong phase information. If we are worried about
> > > that then we should have an assert in that function to ensure that the
> > > current phase is VACUUM_ERRCB_PHASE_SCAN_HEAP.
> >
> > The motivation was to restore the offnum, which is set to Invalid at the start
> > of lazy_scan_heap(), and then set valid within lazy_check_needs_freeze, but
> > should be restored or re-set to Invalid when returns to lazy_scan_heap().  If
> > you think it's important, we could just set vacrelstats->offnum = Invalid
> > before returning,
> >
>
> Yeah, I would prefer that and probably a comment to indicate why we
> are doing that.
>

Changed accordingly in the updated patch.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.