From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:15:41 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: nbtree: Demote minus infinity "can't happen" error.
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nbtree: Demote minus infinity "can't happen" error.

Only a very basic logic bug in a _bt_insertonpg() caller could lead to a
violation of this invariant.  Besides, any newitemoff used for an
internal page is sanitized using other "can't happen" errors in
_bt_getstackbuf() or its callers, before _bt_insertonpg() even gets
called.

Also, move the error/assertion from the insert-without-split path of
_bt_insertonpg() to the top of the same function.  There is no reason
why this invariant only applies to insertions that happen to not result
in a page split; cover every insertion.  The assertion naturally belongs
next to the existing generic assertions that document relatively
high-level invariants for the item being inserted.
---

diff --git a/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtinsert.c b/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtinsert.c
index 03b7e45293a..fb814ef722b 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtinsert.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtinsert.c
@@ -1082,6 +1082,14 @@ _bt_insertonpg(Relation rel,
 		   IndexRelationGetNumberOfKeyAttributes(rel));
 	Assert(!BTreeTupleIsPosting(itup));
 
+	/*
+	 * Every internal page should have exactly one negative infinity item at
+	 * all times.  Only _bt_split() and _bt_newroot() should add items that
+	 * become negative infinity items through truncation, since they're the
+	 * only routines that allocate new internal pages.
+	 */
+	Assert(P_ISLEAF(lpageop) || newitemoff > P_FIRSTDATAKEY(lpageop));
+
 	/* The caller should've finished any incomplete splits already. */
 	if (P_INCOMPLETE_SPLIT(lpageop))
 		elog(ERROR, "cannot insert to incompletely split page %u",
@@ -1212,18 +1220,6 @@ _bt_insertonpg(Relation rel,
 			}
 		}
 
-		/*
-		 * Every internal page should have exactly one negative infinity item
-		 * at all times.  Only _bt_split() and _bt_newroot() should add items
-		 * that become negative infinity items through truncation, since
-		 * they're the only routines that allocate new internal pages.  Do not
-		 * allow a retail insertion of a new item at the negative infinity
-		 * offset.
-		 */
-		if (!P_ISLEAF(lpageop) && newitemoff == P_FIRSTDATAKEY(lpageop))
-			elog(ERROR, "cannot insert second negative infinity item in block %u of index \"%s\"",
-				 itup_blkno, RelationGetRelationName(rel));
-
 		/* Do the update.  No ereport(ERROR) until changes are logged */
 		START_CRIT_SECTION();