Re: bytea operator bugs (was Re: [GENERAL] BYTEA, indexes

Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
>
>>parts=# SELECT * from bombytea where parent_part like '02-%';
>>server closed the connection unexpectedly
>
> You should stop right here and investigate the reason for the crash.

It's the same reason as before -- i.e. the TEXTOID assertion in
patternsel(). I just didn't expect to see physical index corruption as a
result.



>>So it appears that "SELECT * from bombytea where parent_part like
>>'02-%'; server closed the connection unexpectedly" somehow physically
>>corrupts the index!
>
> Hm, I'd have expected WAL recovery to fix that.  But the easiest avenue
> of attack is to isolate the reason for the crash.  Please post a test
> case if you want help.

OK. I'll be back at this again this morning on a different development
machine. I'll see if I can get a reliable test case and post it.

Joe