Re: ERROR: found unexpected null value in index

On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 6:08 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> The error is coming from the planner's get_actual_variable_range:
>
> /* Shouldn't have got a null, but be careful */
> if (isnull[0])
> elog(ERROR, "found unexpected null value in index \"%s\"",
> RelationGetRelationName(indexRel));
>
> and I think it's entirely within its rights to complain, because it
> set up the scan key to reject nulls. In short, somebody seems to
> have broken btrees' processing of SK_ISNULL | SK_SEARCHNOTNULL scankeys,
> and they broke it in v11, because prior versions don't show this failure.

It's not obvious to me why that might be. I'll run a "git bisect" to
track down the offending commit.

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Peter Geoghegan