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From: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
To: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compressed TOAST data corruption with REPACK CONCURRENTLY
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:40:20 +0200
Message-ID: <44015.1776685220@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Michael Paquier <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 10:40:39AM -0700, SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM wrote:
> > I started with that but tried to follow the existing code pattern. This
> > LGTM.
> > Please add a comment as well.
> 
> Hmm.  I was reading restore_tuple(), and could it make sense to expand
> a bit more the tests so as more types of varlena pointers could be
> checked in this routine?  I am taking about MAIN, EXTENDED and
> EXTERNAL, so as we could check more patterns with in-line
> [non-]compressed, and external [non-]compressed, counting for the four
> different possible patterns that could lead to repacked data.  See for
> example strings.sql for such tests, that could be used as base
> inspiration.

ok, this is a patch to enhance the tests. It also simplifies
gen_compressible() a bit and adjusts it so it is (hopefully) more reliable in
generating compressible values. Now it can be used to reproduce the fix [1].

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/52301.1776440752%40localhost

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Antonin Houska
Web: https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com



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