This is a very unlikely condition during checking a B-tree unique constraint, meaning that the index structure is violated badly, and we shouldn't continue checking to avoid endless loops, etc. So it's worth immediately throwing an error. Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzk%2B2116uOXdOViA27SHcr31WKPgmjsxXLBs_aTxAeThzg%40mail.gmail.com Author: Pavel Borisov
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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