Re: Parallel Bitmap scans a bit broken

Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>

From: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
To: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Date: 2017-03-09T16:50:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
> I slightly modified your query to reproduce this issue.
>
> explain analyze select * from r1 where value<555;
>
> Patch is attached to fix the problem.

I forgot to mention the cause of the problem.

if (istate->schunkptr < istate->nchunks)
{
   PagetableEntry *chunk = &ptbase[idxchunks[istate->schunkptr]];
    PagetableEntry *page = &ptbase[idxpages[istate->spageptr]];
    BlockNumber chunk_blockno;

In above if condition we have only checked istate->schunkptr <
istate->nchunks that means we have some chunk left so we are safe to
access idxchunks,  But just after that we are accessing
ptbase[idxpages[istate->spageptr]] without checking that accessing
idxpages is safe or not.

tbm_iterator already handling this case, I broke it in tbm_shared_iterator.

-- 
Regards,
Dilip Kumar
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com


Commits

  1. Avoid access to uninitialized memory in shared tidbitmap iteration.

  2. Bump catversion for MACADDR8

  3. Fix bug in parallel tidbitmap iteration.