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get_raw_page tried to validate the supplied block number against RelationGetNumberOfBlocks(), which of course is only right when accessing the main fork. In most cases, the main fork is longer than the others, so that the check was too weak (allowing a lower-level error to be reported, but no real harm to be done). However, very small tables could have an FSM larger than their heap, in which case the mistake prevented access to some FSM pages. Per report from Torsten Foertsch. In passing, make the bad-block-number error into an ereport not elog (since it's certainly not an internal error); and fix sloppily maintained comment for RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork. This has been wrong since we invented relation forks, so back-patch to all supported branches.
The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their
usefulness.
User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.
When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.
Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database,
you can simply do
CREATE EXTENSION module_name;
See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.