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From: Andrey Borodin <[email protected]>
To: Kirill Reshke <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Fix gistkillitems & add regression test to microvacuum
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:26:01 +0500
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> On 23 Jan 2026, at 16:03, Kirill Reshke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 at 15:30, Andrey Borodin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 15 Jan 2026, at 22:59, Kirill Reshke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> PFA v2 which leaves the test in-place.
>>> 
>>> Also commit message improvements.
>> 
>> Yeah, killtuples for GiST root page is broken. Your patch is fixing it.
>> I don't think we should backpatch this, the bug is harmless, but for master the patch LGTM.
> 
> Thank you
> 
>> It would be good to assign so->curBlkno and so->curBlkno together. But gistScanPage() is the only place with access to the block number.
> 
> Sorry, didnt get this take.

Sorry, I meant so->curBlkno and so->numKilled are semantically correlated. But it's difficult to assign them together and this does not worth refactoring.

> 
>> +# Test gist, but with fewer rows - that killitems used to be buggy.
>> 
>> Probably, in this comment we can explicitly say that killitems was buggy, but now is fixed.
>> 
> 
> Hmm, what would be a good wording here?

I've opened an English dictionary and it says "used to" can be used with a meaning "bug was there but it's not anymore".

So the patch is RfC IMO.


Best regards, Andrey Borodin.





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