Re: [HACKERS] Re: PANIC: invalid index offnum: 186 when processing BRIN indexes in VACUUM

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
>> Hmm, I'm pretty sure we stress-tested brin in pretty much the same way.
>> But I see this misbehavior too.  Looking ...

> Turns out that this is related to concurrent growth of the table while
> the summarization process is scanning -- so new pages have appeared at
> the end of the table after the end point has been determined.  It would
> be a pain to determine number of blocks for each range, so I'm looking
> for a simple way to fix it without imposing so much overhead.

Where are we on this --- do you want me to push the brin_doupdate
fix I proposed, or were you intending to merge that into a
larger patch?  If I'm to do it, is there a reason not to back-patch
to all branches with BRIN?
        regards, tom lane


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