
A bug in the original free space computation made it possible to return a page which wasn't actually able to fit the item. Since the insertion code isn't prepared to deal with PageAddItem failing, a PANIC resulted ("failed to add BRIN tuple [to new page]"). Add a macro to encapsulate the correct computation, and use it in brin_getinsertbuffer's callers before calling that routine, to raise an early error. I became aware of the possiblity of a problem in this area while working on ccc4c074994d734. There's no archived discussion about it, but it's easy to reproduce a problem in the unpatched code with something like CREATE TABLE t (a text); CREATE INDEX ti ON t USING brin (a) WITH (pages_per_range=1); for length in `seq 8000 8196` do psql -f - <<EOF TRUNCATE TABLE t; INSERT INTO t VALUES ('z'), (repeat('a', $length)); EOF done Backpatch to 9.5, where BRIN was introduced.
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