Re: Internal error codes triggered by tests

On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 11:00:01AM +0300, Alexander Lakhin wrote:
> Could you please share your thoughts regarding other error cases, which is
> not triggered by existing tests, but still can be easily reached by users?
>
> For example:
> SELECT satisfies_hash_partition(1, 1, 0, 0);
>
> ERROR:  XX000: could not open relation with OID 1
> LOCATION:  relation_open, relation.c:61
>
> or:
> CREATE TABLE t (b bytea);
> INSERT INTO t SELECT ''::bytea;
> CREATE INDEX brinidx ON t USING brin
>  (b bytea_bloom_ops(n_distinct_per_range = -1.0));
>
> ERROR:  XX000: the bloom filter is too large (44629 > 8144)
> LOCATION:  bloom_init, brin_bloom.c:344
>
> Should such cases be corrected too?

This is a case-by-case.  satisfies_hash_partition() is undocumented,
so doing nothing is fine by me.  The second one, though is something
taht can be triggered with rather normal DDL sequences.  That's more
annoying.
--
Michael