On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> In the end, commit 6bfa88a fixed that old recovery bug by making sure
> the recovery routine heap_xlog_lock() did the right thing. In both
> cases (Feb 2014 and today), the index wasn't really corrupt -- it just
> pointed to the root of a HOT chain when it should point to some child
> tuple (or maybe a successor HOT chain).
Unless I'm very confused, it's really not OK to point at a child tuple
rather than the root of the HOT chain.
Pointing to a successor HOT chain would be OK, as long as you point to
the root tuple thereof.
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