Re: Dead code in _bt_split?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> OK, would you please send a patch to remove the unused code. Thanks.
>
>> Ok, here you are.
>
> Applied with an added comment and Assert.
>
> While testing it I realized that there seems to be a nearby bug in
> _bt_findsplitloc: it fails to consider the possibility of moving all the
> extant items to the left side. It will always return a firstright <=
> maxoff. ISTM this would mean that it could choose a bad split if the
> incoming item goes at the end and both it and the last extant item are
> large: in this case they should be split apart, but they won't be.
>
> Heikki, do you feel like looking at that, or shall I?

I'll take a look at it.

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