Disallow CLUSTER using an invalid index (that is, one left over from a failed

CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY).  Such an index might not have entries for every
heap row and thus clustering with it would result in silent data loss.
The scenario requires a pretty foolish DBA, but still ...

Author: tglsfdc

src/backend/commands/cluster.c

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/cluster.c,v 1.163 2007/09/10 21:59:37 alvherre Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/cluster.c,v 1.164 2007/09/29 18:05:20 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -421,6 +421,20 @@ check_index_is_clusterable(Relation OldHeap, Oid indexOid, bool recheck)
 							RelationGetRelationName(OldIndex))));
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Disallow if index is left over from a failed CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY;
+	 * it might well not contain entries for every heap row, or might not even
+	 * be internally consistent.  (But note that we don't check indcheckxmin;
+	 * the worst consequence of following broken HOT chains would be that we
+	 * might put recently-dead tuples out-of-order in the new table, and there
+	 * is little harm in that.)
+	 */
+	if (!OldIndex->rd_index->indisvalid)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("cannot cluster on invalid index \"%s\"",
+						RelationGetRelationName(OldIndex))));
+
 	/*
 	 * Disallow clustering system relations.  This will definitely NOT work
 	 * for shared relations (we have no way to update pg_class rows in other