From 1884867f41a67fcf856d61f94efba5f0c108ac92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: reshke Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:51:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v1] Modernize error message for malformed B-Tree tuple posting list --- src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtdedup.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtdedup.c b/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtdedup.c index 95be0b17939..b77d24510c0 100644 --- a/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtdedup.c +++ b/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtdedup.c @@ -1038,8 +1038,11 @@ _bt_swap_posting(IndexTuple newitem, IndexTuple oposting, int postingoff) * 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); + ereport(ERROR, + errcode(ERRCODE_INDEX_CORRUPTED), + errmsg("posting list tuple with %d items cannot be split at offset %d", + nhtids, postingoff), + errhint("Please REINDEX it.")); /* * Move item pointers in posting list to make a gap for the new item's -- 2.43.0