Re: BUG #17245: Index corruption involving deduplicated entries

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 11:52 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> Bah, of course.  Sorry for the noise.

It would be nice if users could follow what's going on in the index by
looking at pg_waldump. Theoretically you could compensate for every
individual change to the page (i.e. track the current page offset
number for each tuple dynamically), but that's just too tedious to
ever really work.

It would be nice if pg_waldump printed the contents of index tuples, a
little like pg_filedump can. That would actually offer Kamigishi Rei a
practical way of following what's going on at a low level. It's a pity
that we don't have some kind of generic facility for dumping a random
index tuple, that doesn't require knowledge of the structure of the
index, which isn't easy to get into a tool like pg_waldump. It's
usually possible to see what's in the index without needing to apply
metadata about the "shape" of tuples -- the generic tuple headers show
a lot.

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Peter Geoghegan