Make NULL tuple values always advance skip arrays.
authorPeter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:11:08 +0000 (12:11 -0400)
committerPeter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:11:08 +0000 (12:11 -0400)
commitb75fedcab7916e1c955dbab565b7ad0cee6b37c6
tree984311fcb5d737c6733611a3645308478af57e9a
parent0e13b13d26e870cb18fe6ecf9f8697ddfcf2c740
Make NULL tuple values always advance skip arrays.

_bt_check_compare neglected to handle a case that can arise when the
scan's keys are temporarily treated as nonrequired, as an optimization:
whenever a NULL tuple value was encountered that had a skip array whose
current element wasn't already NULL, _bt_check_compare failed to advance
the array to the NULL element.  This allowed _bt_check_compare to fail
to return matching tuples containing a NULL value (though only with an
array column that came before a skip array column with NULLs, and only
during _bt_readpage calls that set pstate.forcenonrequired=true on a
page where the higher-order column also had to advance).

To fix, teach _bt_check_compare to handle this case just like any other
case where a skip array key is unsatisfied and must be advanced directly
(due to the key being considered a nonrequired key).

Oversight in commit 8a510275, which optimized nbtree search scan key
comparisons with skip arrays.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Reported-By: Mark Dilger <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHgHdKtLFWZcjr87hMH0hYDHgcifu4Tj7iHz-xh8qsJREt5cqA@mail.gmail.com
src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtutils.c