Thanks everyone for the analysis downthread. Here's a test case that
provokes the crash faster. Initialize with
create table brin_test (a text);
create index on brin_test using brin (a) with (pages_per_range = 1);
Then in one psql, run this:
select brin_summarize_new_values('brin_test_a_idx') \watch 0.1
and a pgbench running a script with this line (one client is enough):
insert into brin_test values (repeat(chr(ascii('A') + int4(random() * 61)), int4(random() * 200)));
It crashes in 10-20 seconds for me.
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