Re: crash on 8.2 and cvshead - failed to add item to the

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Joe Conway wrote:
>> We just came upon a crash bug in Postgres >= 8.2. The attached
>> standalone script (just needs a database with plpgsql installed)
>> reproduces the crash for me on 32-bit machines (i686) but NOT on 64 bit
>> machines (x86_64), for Postgres 8.2 and cvs-head, but not on 8.1. We've
>> verified this on about four 32 bit machines, and four 64 bit machines
>> (including one each under vmware on the same host). All machines were
>> some flavor of Red Hat, Fedora, or Gentoo.
>
> Hmm. There seems to be something wrong in the free space calculation in
> the algorithm for choosing the right split location. I'll dig deeper,
> unless someone beats me to it..

I think I found it. The page splitting code didn't take into account
that when the new item is the first one on the right page, it also
becomes the high key of the left page. The fact that this test case
triggered it in 32 bit machines and not on 64 bit machines was a
coincidence.

Patch attached.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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