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-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtdedup.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtdedup.c b/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtdedup.c
index 854e3b2cf9a..271994b08df 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtdedup.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtdedup.c
@@ -1024,7 +1024,19 @@ _bt_swap_posting(IndexTuple newitem, IndexTuple oposting, int postingoff)
nhtids = BTreeTupleGetNPosting(oposting);
Assert(_bt_posting_valid(oposting));
- Assert(postingoff > 0 && postingoff < nhtids);
+
+ /*
+ * The postingoff argument originated as a _bt_binsrch_posting() return
+ * value. It will be 0 in the event of corruption that makes a leaf page
+ * contain a non-pivot tuple that's somehow identical to newitem (no two
+ * non-pivot tuples should ever have the same TID). This has been known
+ * to happen in the field from time to time.
+ *
+ * Perform a basic sanity check to catch this case now.
+ */
+ if (!(postingoff > 0 && postingoff < nhtids))
+ elog(ERROR, "posting list tuple with %d items cannot be split at offset %d",
+ nhtids, postingoff);
/*
* Move item pointers in posting list to make a gap for the new item's