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As we descend the GiST tree during insertion, we modify any downlinks on the way down to include the new tuple we're about to insert (if they don't cover it already). Modifying an existing downlink might cause an internal page to split, if the new downlink tuple is larger than the old one. If that happens, we need to back up to the parent and re-choose a page to insert to. We used to detect that situation, thanks to the NSN-LSN interlock normally used to detect concurrent page splits, but that got broken by commit 9155580fd5. With that commit, we now use a dummy constant LSN value for every page during index build, so the LSN-NSN interlock no longer works. I thought that was OK because there can't be any other backends modifying the index during index build, but missed that the insertion itself can modify the page we're inserting to. The consequence was that we would sometimes insert the new tuple to an incorrect page, one whose downlink doesn't cover the new tuple. To fix, add a flag to the stack that keeps track of the state while descending tree, to indicate that a page was split, and that we need to retry the descend from the parent. Thomas Munro first reported that the contrib/intarray regression test was failing occasionally on the buildfarm after commit 9155580fd5. The failure was intermittent, because the gistchoose() function is not deterministic, and would only occasionally create the right circumstances for this bug to cause the failure. Patch by Anastasia Lubennikova, with some changes by me to make it work correctly also when the internal page split also causes the "grandparent" to be split. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BhUKGJRzLo7tZExWfSbwM3XuK7aAK7FhdBV0FLkbUG%2BW0v0zg%40mail.gmail.com
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