Re: Dimension limit in contrib/cube (dump/restore hazard?)

Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>

From: Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>
To: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-08-28T17:18:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi!

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 6:21 PM Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
> I belive cube construction from array\arrays should check size of arrays.

Makes sense to me.

> Also there are some unexpected cube dimensionality reduction like in cube_enlarge
>     if (n > CUBE_MAX_DIM)
>         n = CUBE_MAX_DIM;
> You wanted larger cube, but got cube of another dimension.
>
> I think we should something like this

OK, but I think cube_c_f8() and cube_c_f8_f8() also need to be
revised.  Also, I think this behavior should be covered by regression
tests.

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Alexander Korotkov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company


Commits

  1. Enforce cube dimension limit in all cube construction functions

  2. Split contrib/cube platform-depended checks into separate test