Full_Name: Steven Lang Version: LMDB 0.9.16 OS: Ubuntu 14.04 URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/steven-lang-150929.c Submission from: (NULL) (199.255.44.5)
While doing some testing using randomized key and data lengths and random puts and deletes, I found a situation in which mdb_cursor_del(...) followed by mdb_cursor_get(..., MDB_NEXT) causes an error:
mdb.c:5726: Assertion 'IS_LEAF(mp)' failed in mdb_cursor_next() Aborted
After a little debugging I was able to isolate what the cause was and produce a simple program to reproduce the issue; during the re-balance following a delete, it would try to move a node from the first child of the root page to the second. If the node it moves has a key longer than the second node in the root page, and the new key doesn't fit, it will split the root page. As a result, by deleting a node, the tree becomes deeper.
However, the cursor only checks and compensates for the tree becoming shallower. So now the cursor was pointing to a branch page rather than a leaf page. Any further cursor operations fail. (Trying to do a MDB_SET, MDB_SET_RANGE, etc will silently fail at this point, while MDB_NEXT and possibly MDB_PREV will assert.)
The latest head with the fix for ITS#8221 changes the behavior slightly, due to the different arrangement of the tree with the less aggressive merging. However, it still fails.
Attached is a program which fills a DB, then deletes keys until it asserts.