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    BRIN revmap pages are not standard pages ... · 7403561c
    Alvaro Herrera authored
    ... and therefore we ought not to tell XLogRegisterBuffer the opposite,
    when writing XLog for a brin update that moves the index tuple to a
    different page.  Otherwise, xlog insertion would try to "compress the
    hole" when producing a full-page image for it; but since we don't update
    pd_lower/upper, the hole covers the whole page.  On WAL replay, the
    revmap page becomes empty and so the entire portion of the index is
    useless and needs to be recomputed.
    
    This is low-probability: a BRIN update only moves an index tuple to a
    different page when the summary tuple is larger than the existing one,
    which doesn't happen with fixed-width datatypes.  Also, the revmap
    page must be first after a checkpoint.
    
    Report and patch: Kuntal Ghosh
    Bug is alleged to have detected by a WAL-consistency-checking tool.
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGz5QCJ=00UQjScSEFbV=0qO5ShTZB9WWz_Fm7+Wd83zPs9Geg@mail.gmail.com
    
    I posted a test case demonstrating the problem, but I'm refraining from
    adding it to the test suite; if the WAL consistency tool makes it in,
    that will be a better way to catch this from regressing.  (We should
    definitely have someting that causes not-same-page updates, though.)
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