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Commit 975ad4e6 authored by Alvaro Herrera's avatar Alvaro Herrera
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Fix PageAddItem BRIN bug

BRIN was relying on the ability to remove a tuple from an index page,
then putting another tuple in the same line pointer.  But PageAddItem
refuses to add a tuple beyond the first free item past the last used
item, and in particular, it rejects an attempt to add an item to an
empty page anywhere other than the first line pointer.  PageAddItem
issues a WARNING and indicates to the caller that it failed, which in
turn causes the BRIN calling code to issue a PANIC, so the whole
sequence looks like this:
	WARNING:  specified item offset is too large
	PANIC:  failed to add BRIN tuple

To fix, create a new function PageAddItemExtended which is like
PageAddItem except that the two boolean arguments become a flags bitmap;
the "overwrite" and "is_heap" boolean flags in PageAddItem become
PAI_OVERWITE and PAI_IS_HEAP flags in the new function, and a new flag
PAI_ALLOW_FAR_OFFSET enables the behavior required by BRIN.
PageAddItem() retains its original signature, for compatibility with
third-party modules (other callers in core code are not modified,
either).

Also, in the belt-and-suspenders spirit, I added a new sanity check in
brinGetTupleForHeapBlock to raise an error if an TID found in the revmap
is not marked as live by the page header.  This causes it to react with
"ERROR: corrupted BRIN index" to the bug at hand, rather than a hard
crash.

Backpatch to 9.5.

Bug reported by Andreas Seltenreich as detected by his handy sqlsmith
fuzzer.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/87mvni77jh.fsf@elite.ansel.ydns.eu
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