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authorHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>2015-07-27 12:28:21 +0300
committerHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>2015-07-27 12:28:21 +0300
commit023430abf72eb7d335430e241065d5ed19ddd94b (patch)
tree4fb0719906779bc0db720dcda1fb8b3f308f7053 /src/include/access
parent65c384c5abee7df6d27f98135790ea24c1b9578b (diff)
downloadpostgresql-023430abf72eb7d335430e241065d5ed19ddd94b.tar.gz
Fix handling of all-zero pages in SP-GiST vacuum.
SP-GiST initialized an all-zeros page at vacuum, but that was not WAL-logged, which is not safe. You might get a torn page write, when it gets flushed to disk, and end-up with a half-initialized index page. To fix, leave it in the all-zeros state, and add it to the FSM. It will be initialized when reused. Also don't set the page-deleted flag when recycling an empty page. That was also not WAL-logged, and a torn write of that would cause the page to have an invalid checksum. Backpatch to 9.2, where SP-GiST indexes were added.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include/access')
-rw-r--r--src/include/access/spgist_private.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/access/spgist_private.h b/src/include/access/spgist_private.h
index 413f71e729..48dadd5b2c 100644
--- a/src/include/access/spgist_private.h
+++ b/src/include/access/spgist_private.h
@@ -48,14 +48,14 @@ typedef SpGistPageOpaqueData *SpGistPageOpaque;
/* Flag bits in page special space */
#define SPGIST_META (1<<0)
-#define SPGIST_DELETED (1<<1)
+#define SPGIST_DELETED (1<<1) /* never set, but keep for backwards
+ * compatibility */
#define SPGIST_LEAF (1<<2)
#define SPGIST_NULLS (1<<3)
#define SpGistPageGetOpaque(page) ((SpGistPageOpaque) PageGetSpecialPointer(page))
#define SpGistPageIsMeta(page) (SpGistPageGetOpaque(page)->flags & SPGIST_META)
#define SpGistPageIsDeleted(page) (SpGistPageGetOpaque(page)->flags & SPGIST_DELETED)
-#define SpGistPageSetDeleted(page) (SpGistPageGetOpaque(page)->flags |= SPGIST_DELETED)
#define SpGistPageIsLeaf(page) (SpGistPageGetOpaque(page)->flags & SPGIST_LEAF)
#define SpGistPageStoresNulls(page) (SpGistPageGetOpaque(page)->flags & SPGIST_NULLS)