Re: pgsql: Fix handling of all-zero pages in SP-GiST vacuum.

On 07/27/2015 06:36 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)iki(dot)fi> writes:
>> Fix handling of all-zero pages in SP-GiST vacuum.
>
> I'm a little bit uncomfortable with the way that this patch presumes that
> PageIsEmpty (a) is safe on an all-zeroes page and (b) will return true for
> such a page. Yes, it does work at the moment; but I don't think we are
> making such an assumption anyplace else, and in view of your other two
> concurrent patches, it doesn't seem very future-proof here either.
> I recommend that the code look more like
>
> if (!SpGistBlockIsRoot(blkno))
> {
> if (PageIsNew(page) || PageIsEmpty(page))
>

I thought I saw other places that assumed that, and I even thought I saw
a comment somewhere documenting that usage. But now that I grep around,
I see no such thing.

I'll go change that...

- Heikki