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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2006-01-06 00:16:09 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2006-01-06 00:16:09 +0000
commita2dca8e9e3deaf8812e5c38f837fc3fa2162d7cf (patch)
treec043258fae3aba28caea483316ec15aef1832744
parent718d3232af9cee59c7e0a0452cc7d02935c557ea (diff)
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Convert Assert checking for empty page into a regular test and elog.
The consequences of overwriting a non-empty page are bad enough that we should not omit this test in production builds.
-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/heap/hio.c13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/heap/hio.c b/src/backend/access/heap/hio.c
index 46c2fd31e04..5189ce12d70 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/heap/hio.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/heap/hio.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/heap/hio.c,v 1.54.4.1 2005/05/07 21:32:52 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/heap/hio.c,v 1.54.4.2 2006/01/06 00:16:09 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -268,10 +268,17 @@ RelationGetBufferForTuple(Relation relation, Size len,
UnlockPage(relation, 0, ExclusiveLock);
/*
- * We need to initialize the empty new page.
+ * We need to initialize the empty new page. Double-check that it really
+ * is empty (this should never happen, but if it does we don't want to
+ * risk wiping out valid data).
*/
pageHeader = (Page) BufferGetPage(buffer);
- Assert(PageIsNew((PageHeader) pageHeader));
+
+ if (!PageIsNew((PageHeader) pageHeader))
+ elog(ERROR, "page %u of relation \"%s\" should be empty but is not",
+ BufferGetBlockNumber(buffer),
+ RelationGetRelationName(relation));
+
PageInit(pageHeader, BufferGetPageSize(buffer), 0);
if (len > PageGetFreeSpace(pageHeader))