Re: bug of recovery?

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I think we should issue PANIC if the source is a critical rmgr, or
> just WARNING if from a non-critical rmgr, such as indexes.
>
> Ideally, I think we should have a mechanism to allow indexes to be
> marked corrupt. For example, a file that if present shows that the
> index is corrupt and would be marked not valid. We can then create the
> file and send a sinval message to force the index relcache to be
> rebuilt showing valid set to false.

This seems not to be specific to the invalid-page table problem.
All error cases from a non-critical rmgr should be treated not-PANIC.
So I think that the idea should be implemented separately from
the patch I've posted.

Anyway what if read-only query accesses the index marked invalid?
Just emit ERROR?

Regards,

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