Error "negative bitmapset member not allowed"

Products

• VMware Tanzu Greenplum

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

When updating or deleting from an AO table the error "negative bitmapset member not allowed" is returned. 

Error Message:

"negative bitmapset member not allowed" 

 

Environment

Cause

This error is caused when the first-row number in the aovisimap of an AO/CO table exceeds int max. There is an issue in 4.3.22 and older codes where the first-row number is retrieved from the tuple as a 32-bit integer, but the first-row number is a 64-bit integer.

 

Resolution

This issue is fixed in 4.3.23.0, issue number 29204.