Re: Another assert failure from no-palloc-in-critical-sections

On 04/05/2014 08:08 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I tried the test case given in
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/dafad644f268ce1503e1b8b682aae38a.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl
> on HEAD.  It asserted here:
>...
> #5  0x000000000046b92b in createPostingTree (index=0x7f1348ae31e0,
>      items=0x7f13343bb048, nitems=272428, buildStats=0x7fff1d835670)
>      at gindatapage.c:1739

Yep, that's a clear violation of the no-pallocs-in-critical-section 
rule. Thanks, fixed.

I'm surprised none of the existing regression tests caught that. 
Apparently none of them create a GIN index with enough duplicate keys 
that it would create a posting tree. I added one.

- Heikki