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The code in bringetbitmap() simply added the whole matching page range
to the TID bitmap, as determined by pages_per_range, even if some of the
pages were beyond the end of the heap. The query then might fail with
an error like this:

  ERROR:  could not open file "base/20176/20228.2" (target block
          262144): previous segment is only 131021 blocks

In this case, the relation has 262093 pages (131072 and 131021 pages),
but we're trying to acess block 262144, i.e. first block of the 3rd
segment. At that point _mdfd_getseg() notices the preceding segment is
incomplete, and fails.

Hitting this in practice is rather unlikely, because:

* Most indexes use power-of-two ranges, so segments and page ranges
  align perfectly (segment end is also a page range end).

* The table size has to be just right, with the last segment being
  almost full - less than one page range from full segment, so that the
  last page range actually crosses the segment boundary.

* Prefetch has to be enabled. The regular page access checks that
  pages are not beyond heap end, but prefetch does not. On older
  releases (before 12) the execution stops after hitting the first
  non-existent page, so the prefetch distance has to be sufficient
  to reach the first page in the next segment to trigger the issue.
  Since 12 it's enough to just have prefetch enabled, the prefetch
  distance does not matter.

Fixed by not adding non-existent pages to the TID bitmap. Backpatch
all the way back to 9.6 (BRIN indexes were introduced in 9.5, but that
release is EOL).

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README

PostgreSQL Database Management System
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