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Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> I think autovacuum simply triggers the bug, and is not the cause of the =
bug.  If I turn autovacuum off and instead do an ANALYZE in each test data=
base rather than performing the corruptions, I get reports about problems =
in pg_statistic.  This is on my mac laptop.  This rules out the theory tha=
t autovacuum is propogating corruptions into pg_statistic, and also the th=
eory that it is architecture dependent.

I wonder whether amcheck is confused by the declaration of those columns
as "anyarray".

			regards, tom lane